1970 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 269/2 [Massachusetts] Poopie.

1972 B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular 84 Excretion... poopy.

1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 29 Mar. 1 d ‘Mommy, Mommy, Mushroom [sc. a hamster] had babies.’.. You say, no, that's just its poopies.

2000 N. DeMille Lion's Game 170 The Feds try to keep normal work hours, trusting in a few duty officers and beepers to turn out the troops when the poopy hits the paddles.

1987 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 1 Nov. 13 (cartoon caption) ‘You can't kill me, I'm your best friend.’ ‘Oh poopies.’

1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 25 July 22 (cartoon caption) ‘Gold prospectors are ravaging our land!’ ‘Oh poopy.’

1975 D. Nobbs Death Reginald Perrin 31 I done poopy-plops in my panties.

1991 Independent 23 Dec. 15/5 In between the burials there is the most nauseating catalogue of family accomplishments imaginable: 16-year-old Sarah's exchange trip to France..; young Simon's piano prize; and, of course, baby Clarissa's first proper poopy-plops.

1957 New Yorker 4 May 102/2 It was used in reference to some nice old poopy elder statesman who'd made a fortune in the stock market and then gone to Washington to be an adviser to President Roosevelt.

1970 Oxf. Mail 27 Jan. 1/9 However, he did make a slight concession to the Paris poopy droops—some suits and dresses come down to the knee, which for him looked rather old-fashioned.

1980 Washington Post 12 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 45/1 My first serve is hard when it goes in, but my second one is so poopy Granny could return it.

1993 B. Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven ii. xiii. 140 The poopy old manager says some stupid things to me every single day.

1983 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 4 Feb. 1/4 I've washed a lot of poopy ones and taken an active role in caring for the kids.

1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 May (Weekend section) 28 It is a sweet but stalled feminist farce, which finds three confirmed bachelors cooing over poopy diapers and baby's mashed peas.

1990 Elle (U.S. ed.) Aug. 136/3 Designers are well aware that fashion must counteract what Oldham calls ‘poopy times’, including the devastation AIDS has wreaked upon the industry.

2001 J. Weiner Good in Bed xx. 371 I was less than enamoured with the thought of..watching him tell readers about his sex life while I filled them in on spit-up and poopy diapers.