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going potty

going potty is the present participle and gerund of go potty.

Meaning of go potty

Verb (1)

go potty (third-person singular simple present goes potty, present participle going potty, simple past went potty, past participle gone potty)

  1. (childish) To go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate.
    • I have to go potty!

Verb (2)

go potty (third-person singular simple present goes potty, present participle going potty, simple past went potty, past participle gone potty)

  1. (UK) 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

Questions about going potty

What is going potty the present participle and gerund of?
Going potty is the present participle and gerund of go potty.

Words near going potty in the dictionary

  1. going phut
  2. going places
  3. going platinum
  4. going poof
  5. going postal
  6. going potty
  7. going public
  8. going quietly
  9. going rate
  10. going rates
  11. going rogue

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