Is there an English noun for the sensation that you gotta pee or poo?

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I.e. can you say "I have the X/Y" instead of "I have to pee/poo"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

"I have the tortoise head"

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

busting.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

"Fuck off, I'll talk to you later, I'm touching cloth."

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

He asked for a noun!

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

Preload

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

There's an unwritten implication here that there actually is a Finnish word for this that isn't slang.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, there is.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

feeling pishy

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Whodathunkit

xpost

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

I will never be surprised by anything about Finland again.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

The reason I'm asking this is 'cause there is this Finnish band which plays classic metal songs with retouched lyrics to kids, and their version of "Paranoid" has the Finnish noun for "gotta pee" as the title.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

i am peeful

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

" " pooful

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

for noun add -ness obv

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

The first Google hit for Paranoid lyrics gave me "browning" instead of "frowning" in the first verse :)

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

"bursting bladder"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

"hidden bowel"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

i'm a peeful person

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am with poo

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

"I have the X/Y"

COLDPLAYSY! (Which would give me the runners, really.)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

peeregnancy etc

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

"desperation"

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Peeful or pooful/So why should it be/You and I should get along so awfully

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, noun. Whatever.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

up with peeful

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

wost case peenario

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

sex peestools

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

poogarbabes

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

the shits

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

the runs

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

the bends

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

the shins

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

the thrills

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

the la's

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

poop will eat itself

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Peeful Weapon, starring Mel Gibson.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Melton Mowbray's APOCOLYPTO!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

under pressure

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

teh kit

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

JUDGEMENT DAY

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

everybody meet Mr Pee Poo

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

mr hankey

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

mr urgent hankey

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

SO WHAT'S THE FINNISH TERM?!

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, i'm already in love with the language (without really knowing it) from reading that wikipedia list of finnish idioms.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

herr hankey

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

oops hanki

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

hasis

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

I think we should adopt "I've got the Tuomas" as the need-to-poo phrase.

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

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When we were kids, it was "I have a turtlehead".

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

That was my first answer. Well I picked tortoise but the idea is the same.

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

for my 32-yr-old boyfriend it's still "I have a turtlehead."

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's why I said. Never heard of a tortoisehead before.

(x-p)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

I am definitely gonna start saying "I have pee/poo distress"

― peter in montreal (spaces are allowed), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

'eggbound'?

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

"wannapee" & "gottapoo" be also feasible nounwords for stating teh state one is in, necessity wise.

for being in fierce state of gotta'ness, though, "pee-k-poo" does nicely.

― tiit (tiit), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

To answer the original question, I don't know of something that'd fit into "I have a ____", but the noun for needing to pee (I don't know about poo) is "urgency". So "Mr. Urgent Hankey" is pretty close!

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

Crap, that omitted my </pedant> tag. Ah, well.

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get the "turtlehead" euphemism... Where does it come from?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=turtlehead

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus! I must go to the crapper. There's a turtlehead in me undercrakers!!

flawless.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:43 (eighteen years ago)

So "Mr. Urgent Hankey" is pretty close!

how about "the poo-choo train is about to leave"?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 January 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

SO WHAT'S THE FINNISH TERM?!

miistëër häänkkëëj?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 January 2007 09:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.photographyblog.com/gallery/data/3028/994TurtleHead.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

THAT is teh horrenduousestest vision of declenchment EVAH

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

OMG I had no idea they were so cute, I can't wait until I have to go again!

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Mr. Brown is leaving town

― Life Begins at Death (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Thursday, 16 October 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

I was thinking about this yesterday: is there an English word for the feeling you get when you see someone embarrass herself (for example) on TV or in public, and you too feel embarrassed out of empathy? In Finnish we call it "myötähäpeä", which means "with-embarrassment" (as in, "feel embarrassed with her").

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)

http://rlv.zcache.com/back_in_st_olaf_tshirt-p235289294514773969t5tr_400.jpg

― Matt P, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:33 (sixteen years ago)

Oh. That's kinda weird way of saying it.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:35 (sixteen years ago)

There's not a word specifically for it, no.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:36 (sixteen years ago)

That's weird, and you don't have a proper English word for "schadenfreude" either... I wonder what this means?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

"that lady on the news made me feel totally tuomassundae.jpegged last night"

― Bo-rad Crewcial Overdrive (jjjusten), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:39 (sixteen years ago)

Do you have a proper Finnish word for "schadenfreude"? If we came up with our own word, bad writers would lose the precious opening line, "The German language has the unusual word "schadenfreude," meaning the pleasure you get from witnessing someone else's pain."

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

sundaefreude

― velko, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

"that poor lady was totally desperate with pee-want that she had to rush behind the dumpster to relive herself -- i felt totally twinbarrassed"

― fade away & r80-8 (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, the Finnish word is "vahingonilo", which means pretty much the same as the German word, i.e. "misfortune joy".

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:45 (sixteen years ago)

(xx-post)

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:45 (sixteen years ago)

vaginhonilo

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

Or "joy of misfortune", to be exact.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

(x-post)

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

Is there an English noun for the sensation that you gotta (...) poo?

shitecramp

― snoball, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

This is from Allison Bechdel's site, Tuomas, and it made me think of you:

Has your work been translated into Finnish?
Why yes, it has. “Lepakkoelämää,” which supposedly means “Spawn of Dykes To Watch Out For,” but could mean “suck my llama” for all I know, was published in 2000 by the Helsinki publisher Kääntöpiiri. Finland, in fact, seems to be just one big sauna full of Dykes To Watch Out For fans, one of whom wrote a very professional-looking hard-bound college thesis about my work in 1998. Go figure.
Does “lepakkoelämää” really mean “suck my llama?”
A concerned Finnish reader recently informed me that the literal translation of “lepakkoelämää” is “bat life,” which is slang for “promiscuous lesbian.” Glad I could clear that up.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

Is there an English noun for the sensation that you gotta (...) poo?

I think it's 'graahggghhhlllarrrgghhhhraaalllaaarrrgharrrgh'

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:47 (sixteen years ago)

brown alert

― snoball, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

Srsly if you have to poop or pee really bad, how can you even make words?

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:49 (sixteen years ago)

A concerned Finnish reader recently informed me that the literal translation of “lepakkoelämää” is “bat life,” which is slang for “promiscuous lesbian.” Glad I could clear that up.

This is actually a bit wrong. "Lepakko" (i.e. "bat") is indeed a Finnish slang word for "lesbian" (it comes from the words being phonetically close to each other), but it doesn't necessarily imply promiscuity. "Lepakkoelämää" simply means "lesbian life".

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:50 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blwBvrFQy-Y

― velko, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

If he cropped his pants it would be a fashion disaster.

― snoball, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:52 (sixteen years ago)

That's weird, and you don't have a proper English word for "schadenfreude" either... I wonder what this means?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 1:38 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

actually we do, it's "schadenfreude"

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:55 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, but you had to borrow that from the Germans.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:33 (sixteen years ago)

Bloody thieves. And from the Germans no less!

― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:16 (sixteen years ago)

English is a giant glom of loanwords, Tuomas.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_English_words_of_international_origin

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

Too bad they didn't "loan" lepakkoelämää

― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

"Here here you can have it back!"

"Nooooooo, KEEEEEP IT"

― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

ahahahahahahaha

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

Looks like we took 'mammoth' from Russia.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

Oh my god, and TAIGA! That's one of my favorite words (and biomes!).

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

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