Phrase guide

bowel movement

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The discharge of feces from the body, an act of defecation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: big jobs, bowel movement, cack, call of nature, crap, crapping, defecating, defecation, doing one's ease, doing one's easement, dump, dumping, easement, hod, motion, number two, poo, pooh, poop, purging, sharn, shit, shitting, spraying, taking a shit

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The feces thus produced.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crap, crud, danna, dejection, dirt, do do, doo-doo, doody, dook, dookie, dooky, droppings, dump, dumplings, dung, Eartha, Eartha Kitt, excrement, faeces, faex, fecal matter, feces, flop, fudge, gong, ish, jobby, merd, muck, nature, number two, ordure, poo, pooh, poop, poopie, poo-poo, poopy, pure, purging, scat, sharn, shit, shite, soil, stool, thost, tom tit, turd, waste

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a euphemism for defecation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he had a bowel movement

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: movement, bm

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: defecation, laxation, shitting

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: defecació — discharge of feces
  • Chinese Mandarin: 排便 (páibiàn) — discharge of feces
  • Czech: stolice — discharge of feces
  • Dutch: stoelgang — discharge of feces
  • Dutch: ontlasting — discharge of feces
  • Finnish: ulostaminen — discharge of feces
  • French: défécation — discharge of feces
  • German: Stuhlgang — discharge of feces
  • Hungarian: székelés — discharge of feces
  • Hungarian: székletürítés — discharge of feces
  • Italian: defecazione — discharge of feces
  • Polish: wypróżnienie — discharge of feces
  • Portuguese: movimento intestinal — discharge of feces
  • Portuguese: evacuação — discharge of feces
  • Portuguese: defecação — discharge of feces
  • Spanish: defecación — discharge of feces
  • Turkish: bağırsak hareketi — discharge of feces
  • Catalan: deposició — feces thus produced
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糞便 /粪便 (fènbiàn) — feces thus produced
  • Finnish: uloste — feces thus produced
  • French: fèces — feces thus produced
  • Hungarian: széklet — feces thus produced
  • Italian: feci — feces thus produced
  • Polish: kał — feces thus produced
  • Polish: stolec — feces thus produced
  • Portuguese: fezes — feces thus produced
  • Spanish: heces — feces thus produced