"do one's easement" meaning in All languages combined

See do one's easement on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: does one's easement [present, singular, third-person], doing one's easement [participle, present], did one's easement [past], done one's easement [participle, past]
Etymology: From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels. Head templates: {{en-verb|do<does,,did,done> one's easement}} do one's easement (third-person singular simple present does one's easement, present participle doing one's easement, simple past did one's easement, past participle done one's easement)
  1. (euphemistic, obsolete) To ease one's bowels: to defecate. Tags: euphemistic, obsolete Categories (topical): Bodily functions, Feces Synonyms: defecate Derived forms: do one's ease, house of ease, house of easement, stool of easement

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does one's easement",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing one's easement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did one's easement",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done one's easement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "do<does,,did,done> one's easement"
      },
      "expansion": "do one's easement (third-person singular simple present does one's easement, present participle doing one's easement, simple past did one's easement, past participle done one's easement)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English euphemisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bodily functions",
          "orig": "en:Bodily functions",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Feces",
          "orig": "en:Feces",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Toilet (room)",
            "All topics",
            "Hygiene",
            "Rooms",
            "Fundamental",
            "Health",
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Architecture",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "do one's ease"
        },
        {
          "word": "house of ease"
        },
        {
          "word": "house of easement"
        },
        {
          "word": "stool of easement"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Shirley McKay, “A Merry Month”, in Friend & Foe (A Hew Cullen Mystery), Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ease one's bowels: to defecate."
      ],
      "id": "en-do_one's_easement-en-verb-aQuAr3qp",
      "links": [
        [
          "ease",
          "ease"
        ],
        [
          "one",
          "one"
        ],
        [
          "bowel",
          "bowel"
        ],
        [
          "defecate",
          "defecate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(euphemistic, obsolete) To ease one's bowels: to defecate."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "defecate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "do one's easement"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "do one's ease"
    },
    {
      "word": "house of ease"
    },
    {
      "word": "house of easement"
    },
    {
      "word": "stool of easement"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does one's easement",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing one's easement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did one's easement",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done one's easement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "do<does,,did,done> one's easement"
      },
      "expansion": "do one's easement (third-person singular simple present does one's easement, present participle doing one's easement, simple past did one's easement, past participle done one's easement)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Bodily functions",
        "en:Feces"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Shirley McKay, “A Merry Month”, in Friend & Foe (A Hew Cullen Mystery), Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ease one's bowels: to defecate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ease",
          "ease"
        ],
        [
          "one",
          "one"
        ],
        [
          "bowel",
          "bowel"
        ],
        [
          "defecate",
          "defecate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(euphemistic, obsolete) To ease one's bowels: to defecate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "defecate"
    }
  ],
  "word": "do one's easement"
}

Download raw JSONL data for do one's easement meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.