different between caca vs poopy

English

Etymology

From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation. Cognate with English cack. Compare Latin cac? (“to defecate”), French caca (“excrement”), Basque kaka (“excrement”), Lithuanian kaka (“excrement”), Hungarian kaka (“excrement”), Italian cacca, Ancient Greek ????? (kákk?, “dung”), German kacken, Irish cac, Welsh cach, Cornish caugh, Breton cac'h, Aromanian cac, Scottish Gaelic cac, Romanian c?ca, Spanish caca (“excrement”).

Noun

caca (uncountable)

1. (childish) Excrement

Synonyms

• cack; see also Thesaurus:feces

Anagrams

• AACC, ACCA, CAAC, CCAA, acca

French

Etymology

From Latin cac? (“I defecate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka/

Noun

caca m (plural cacas)

1. (childish) poo (childish word for excrement)

   Pipi, caca, popo : histoire anecdotique de la scatologie. (Book title)

Derived terms

• faire caca
• faire un caca nerveux

Further reading

• “caca” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; or either from a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *kakk?. Compare Welsh cach and English caca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kaka?/

Noun

caca m (plural cacas)

1. (childish) poo
2. (childish) filth
3. (figuratively) crap

References

• “caca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “caca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “caca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Noun

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

Mutation

Italian

Verb

caca

1. third-person singular present indicative of cacare
2. second-person singular imperative of cacare

Anagrams

• acca

Latin

Verb

cac?

1. second-person singular present imperative of cac?

References

• caca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• caca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• caca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caca in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• caca in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.k?/
• Rhymes: -aka

Noun

caca f (plural cacas)

1. (childish or euphemistic) crap; excrement

   Synonyms: bosta, merda

Descendants

• ? Sranan Tongo: kaka

Romanian

Etymology

From French caca.

Noun

caca

1. (childish) poop, poo
2. (childish) something dirty

Related terms

• c?ca

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

Adjective

caca

1. dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, unpleasant, yukky

Spanish

Noun

caca f (plural cacas)

1. (childish, colloquial) poo

Derived terms

Related terms

• encacado
• cagar

Xhosa

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?a?k?a]

Verb

-caca

1. to be clear

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

English

Alternative forms

• poopie (noun only)

Etymology

• (noun) baby talk variant of poop (excrement).
• (adjective) Originated 1957, perhaps by shortening nincompoop or as a euphemism for shitty; see poop.

Pronunciation

Adjective

poopy (comparative more poopy, superlative most poopy)

1. (slang) depressed, weak, or worthless.
2. (informal, slang) Dirty with feces.

Noun

poopy (countable and uncountable, plural poopies)

1. (slang, childish) excrement.

References

• "poopy" in the Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6), Lexico Publishing Group, 2003-2005.