Timeline for What part of speech is 'pooped' in "I am pooped"
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| Jan 11, 2013 at 10:02 | vote | accept | Mike Pennington | ||
| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:33 | answer | added | bib | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:23 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think your betting partner is on a hiding to nothing. He'd have more chance if you accepted something like "When we play squash, I'm always the pooped one" as your test sentence. But we don't normally use pooped that way - it's a standard "past participle used adjectivally". Effectively, an inflected form of the verb "to poop" (OED a: intr. To break down, ‘conk’ out. b: trans. To tire, to exhaust) that we don't actually use as a standard verb very much. Except those who use it for defecate, crap, shit. | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:20 | history | edited | JSBձոգչ |
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| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:16 | answer | added | pasawaya | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:02 | history | asked | Mike Pennington | CC BY-SA 3.0 |