go potty
go potty verb: to go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate.
Verb (1)
go potty (third-person singular simple present goes potty, present participle going potty, simple past went potty, past participle gone potty)
- To go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate.
- I have to go potty!
- I simply came outside to go potty, and found myself abandoned, having to rely totally on my primal urges! ... Like the sudden urge to go potty again.2000 October 4, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
- Synonyms:
- use the toilet, defecate
Verb (2)
go potty (third-person singular simple present goes potty, present participle going potty, simple past went potty, past participle gone potty)
- To go crazy: to become insane.
- 'That was the worst thing,' says Adrian. 'My mother just went potty. She said he was going to rot in hell for that.2008 May 31, Elizabeth Day, Graham Keeley, “My father, RD Laing: 'he solved other people's problems - but not his own'”, in The Observer, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- flip one's wig, flip out, freak out, get one's freak on, go ballistic, go bananas, go berserk, go bonkers, go crazy, go HAM
Synonyms of go potty
- use the toilet
- defecate
- flip one's wig
- flip out
- freak out
- get one's freak on
- go ballistic
- go bananas
- go berserk
- go bonkers
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Forms of go potty
| third-person singular present | goes potty |
|---|---|
| present participle | going potty |
| past | went potty |
| past participle | gone potty |
Origin of go potty
From use of potty as a diminutive form of chamber pot.
From British use of potty as slang for insane, probably under influence from petty.
Questions about go potty
- What does go potty mean?
- Go potty means to go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate.
- What part of speech is go potty?
- Go potty is a verb.
- What is the past tense of go potty?
- The past tense of go potty is went potty.
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