poop machine
English
Etymology
From the view that the subject (a baby or animal) does nothing but digest food and produce waste.
Noun
poop machine (plural poop machines)
- (informal, derogatory or humorous) An infant.
- 2012, J. A. Pitts, Forged in Fire, Tor Books (2012), →ISBN, page 147:
- […] Never could keep friends long, so I figured if I had a sister, I'd at least have someone to be friends with, even if she was a crying poop machine for the first year."
- 2012, J. A. Pitts, Forged in Fire, Tor Books (2012), →ISBN, page 147:
- (idiomatic, derogatory or humorous) An animal whose defecation inconveniences humans.
- 2000, Gerry Buccis & Barbara Somerville, Training Your Pet Rat, Barron's Educational Series (2000), →ISBN, page 85:
- Then, there's scooping the poop. Rats are real little poop machines.
- 2000, Gerry Buccis & Barbara Somerville, Training Your Pet Rat, Barron's Educational Series (2000), →ISBN, page 85:
Quotations
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:poop machine.
Synonyms
- poop factory
- shit factory (vulgar)
- (infant): see also Thesaurus:baby.