![]() ![]() ![]() The Privy is an old fashioned term used more in the North of England and in Scotland, a possible derivation meaning private place. The John is an American term for the toilet. The Shithouse is British and American slang for the toilet. The Netty is a Northern English Expression for an outside toilet. It is now an informal word used for any lavatory and is most often used referring to drop or pit lavatories in the Australian bush. The word derives from the British dialect word dunnekin, meaning dung-house. The person who appeared weekly to empty the pan beneath the seat was known as the dunnyman. The Dunny is an Australian expression for an outside toilet. See also tree bog, not to be confused with the swampland meaning of bog. More wide-spread is the usage bogroll, meaning toilet paper. Originally "bog" was used to describe an open cesspit and the word was later applied to the privy connected to it. The bog is a colloquial expression in British English for a toilet. Khazi is now most commonly used in the city of Liverpool in the UK, away from its cockney slang roots. It is presumably derived from the Italian casa for house, with the spelling influenced by similar sound to khaki. Carsey also referred to a den or brothel. Lexicographer Eric Partridge derives khazi, also spelt karzy, kharsie or carzey, from a low Cockney word carsey originating in the late 19th century and meaning a privvy. The "house of office" was a common name for a toilet in seventeenth century England, used by Samuel Pepys among others. In modern Ireland the cognate term jacks is still used, and is a very common method of referring to the toilet. In Tudor England a privy was first referred to as a jakes in 1530. In Mexico, WC is very common everywhere on public toilets, although the majority of the people there do not know the meaning of the 'mysterious' letters on the door. ![]() The WC is the initial letters of Water Closet, surprisingly used commonly in France (pronounced "le vay-say" or "le vater"), the Netherlands (pronounced "vaysay") and in Germany (pronounced "veh-tsay"). That an early British toilet manufacturer produced a model of cistern named "Waterloo" (in honour of the Battle of Waterloo), and the term derives from 'going to the Waterloo', and then abbreviated to simply as 'going to the `loo'.Even now most yachtsmen refer to the loo rather than the heads. Using the windward side would result in the urine blown back on board: hence the phrases 'pissing into the wind' and 'spitting into the wind'. However it was important to use the leeward side. Early ships were not fitted with toilets but the crew would urinate over the side of the vessel. The standard nautical pronunciation (in British English) of leeward is looward. That the word comes from nautical terminology, loo being an old-fashioned word for lee.However the first recorded usage of "loo" comes long after this term became obsolete. That it derives from the term "gardyloo" (a corruption of the French phrase gardez l'eau loosely translated as "watch out for the water!") which was used in medieval Edinburgh when chamber pots were emptied from a window onto the street.It's etimology is obscure, but it might derive from the word Waterloo. Lavatory is the common signage for toilets on commercial airlines around the world. Since these rooms often also contain toilets, the meaning evolved into its current meaning, namely the polite and formal euphemism for a toilet and the room containing it. It used to refer to a vessel for washing, such as a sink or wash basin, and so came to mean a room with washing vessels. The term lavatory, or lav, derives from the Latin, which in turn comes from Latin, to wash. ![]()
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