pooped
to be very tired (sehr müde)
TRANSLATION
ausgelaugt, erschöpft, müde
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Tonight we delivered their 'network in a box' with two perfectly running PCs with all necessary software installed as well as the recovered data from their virus/trojan horse crash of last week. I'm POOPED... Work during the day, up all night playing with networks and computers."
(board posting - www.mrsdutoit.com - 4th Dec 2002)
(board posting - www.mrsdutoit.com - 4th Dec 2002)
Did you
know?
Did you know?
"Pooped" means to be very tired.
The term goes back to sailors who brought it to land. The stern of a boat is called the poop. During strong winds and storms, the elements smashed against it repeatedly. Any ship's stern that showed damage from all of this was called "pooped" and lucky to still be floating after days of battering waves.
So when the sailors got ashore, in their descriptive way they would often say that they felt as tired and battered and as "pooped" as their ship. People soon used this phrase to describe themselves even when on land.
Tiredness must be a quite a subject of conversation for English speakers as pooped is one of many synonyms. Here's just a selection :
All in, beat, bedraggled, burned out, bushed, dead, dead-beat, dead-tired, dog-tired, dog-weary, done in, droopy, dropping, exhausted, fagged, fagged out, footsore, hung, jaded, languid, languorous, lassitudinous, listless, overtired, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrated, spent, tuckered, washed out, wasted, weary, whacked, worn, worn-out, zonked.
Useful words if you've been partying all weekend :)
"Pooped" means to be very tired.
The term goes back to sailors who brought it to land. The stern of a boat is called the poop. During strong winds and storms, the elements smashed against it repeatedly. Any ship's stern that showed damage from all of this was called "pooped" and lucky to still be floating after days of battering waves.
So when the sailors got ashore, in their descriptive way they would often say that they felt as tired and battered and as "pooped" as their ship. People soon used this phrase to describe themselves even when on land.
Tiredness must be a quite a subject of conversation for English speakers as pooped is one of many synonyms. Here's just a selection :
All in, beat, bedraggled, burned out, bushed, dead, dead-beat, dead-tired, dog-tired, dog-weary, done in, droopy, dropping, exhausted, fagged, fagged out, footsore, hung, jaded, languid, languorous, lassitudinous, listless, overtired, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrated, spent, tuckered, washed out, wasted, weary, whacked, worn, worn-out, zonked.
Useful words if you've been partying all weekend :)
