Feces; solid waste matter discharged from the bowels. Informal term for bowel movements.
Middle English 'poupen' meaning to make a gulping sound, possibly imitative. The scatological meaning developed later through sound association with the act of defecation.
Despite being universal human experience, different cultures have vastly different taboos around discussing excrement - English has dozens of euphemisms from clinical to crude, showing how deeply social anxiety about bodily functions shapes our language.
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