BM

en-noun

BM (countable and uncountable, plural BMs)

Frequent involuntary urination. Frequent desire for B.M. but no result.

1911, Journal of the National Medical Association:

Mr. Jansen stated that he had a medium-sized, soft, formed, brown BM after breakfast today.

2017, Sheila A. Sorrentino, Leighann N. Remmert, Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 9th edition, St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 424:

(Canada, US, euphemistic) Initialism of bowel movement.


BM

en-verb

BM (third-person singular simple present BMs, present participle BMing, simple past and past participle BMed)

BMs (present singular third-person)
BMing (participle present)
BMed (participle past)
BMed (past)


crap

en-adj

crap (comparative crapper, superlative crappest)

crapper (comparative)
crappest (superlative)

From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.

der

I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.

(colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of poor quality.


throne room

The economy of space is a marvel; the studio may seem cluttered, a kind of Middle-earthian junkyard ringed by the stalks of lighting rigs, but one glance into the monitor and there is Théoden’s massive throne room, carved straight out of the pages of Tolkien’s vast antiquity.

2005, Andrew O’Hehir, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, in Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor, Plexus, →ISBN, page 138:

A room used for formal public audiences by a monarch.


deuce

From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford to describe a model of car they made in 1932 due to it being a two-seater.

(Canada, US, slang) A piece of excrement; number two.

The number two.
A piece of excrement; number two.

Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.

1988 December 25, Eric Peterson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 14:

(Canada, slang) A two-year prison sentence.

The number two.
A two-year prison sentence.


can

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-can.wav

From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, can”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”).

inh

blik

general term; not normally used for small drink cans

necesejo

non-offensive slang for toilet — see also toilet


bathroom

en-verb

bathroom (third-person singular simple present bathrooms, present participle bathrooming, simple past and past participle bathroomed)

bathrooms (present singular third-person)
bathrooming (participle present)
bathroomed (participle past)
bathroomed (past)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
English bathroom
From bath + room. Compare Dutch badkamer (“bathroom”), German Badezimmer (“bathroom”), Swedish badrum (“bathroom”), Faroese baðrúm (“bathroom”).

etymon

(medicine, transitive) To assist a patient with using the toilet and general personal hygiene.


retreat

From Middle English retret, from Old French retrait or retret, from Latin retractus, from retraho. Doublet of retract, retrait, and ritratto.

doublet

The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.

The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.

The general opted for a swift retreat because he saw his troops were vastly outnumbered.

(military) Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.

In a retreat he outruns any lackey.

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:


retreat

en-verb

retreat (third-person singular simple present retreats, present participle retreating, simple past and past participle retreated)

retreats (present singular third-person)
retreating (participle present)
retreated (participle past)
retreated (past)

To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures. (of a glacier)


shit

en-noun

shit (usually uncountable, plural shits)

→ Dutch: shit m

→ French: shit m

→ Ilocano: shet

→ Kankanaey: shet

→ Pitcairn-Norfolk: shet

→ Swedish: shit

→ Tagalog: shet

From Middle English schit, schyt, from Old English *sċite (“dung”) and sċitte (“diarrhoea”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiti and *skittjā, from Proto-Germanic *skitiz, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, divide, separate”). Related to Saterland Frisian Skiete, West Frisian skyte, skyt, Dutch schijt, German Low German Schiet, German Scheiße, Danish skidt, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk skit, Norwegian Bokmål skitt, Icelandic skítur. Compare shite. Doublet of scheisse.

der

The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers. [...] In tackling the shit problem, economics could well be a clincher.

2011 July 30, “Cholera and the super-loo”, in The Economist:

(countable, uncountable, colloquial, vulgar) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.

stront

solid excretory product — see also feces, poo, stool


shit

en-adj

shit (comparative shitter or more shit, superlative shittest or most shit)

shitter (comparative)
more shit (comparative)
shittest (superlative)
most shit (superlative)

shitter

see unskilled one sense and contemptible one sense

What a shit film that was!

(vulgar, colloquial) Of poor quality; worthless.

That was a shit thing to do to him.


shit

→ Dutch: shit

→ Swedish: shit

From Middle English schiten, shiten, from Old English sċītan, from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skéydt, from *skeyd-, *skeh₁i-d (“to cut”) (compare *skey-).
Cognate with West Frisian skite, Low German schieten, Dutch schijten, German scheißen, Danish skide. More at shed.

Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!

Holy shit!

Oh, shit!

(vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.


banacem

banacems (nominative plural)
banacem (nominative singular)
banacems (nominative plural)
banacema (genitive singular)
banacemas (genitive plural)
banaceme (dative singular)
banacemes (dative plural)
banacemi (accusative singular)
banacemis (accusative plural)
o banacem! (singular vocative)
o banacems! (plural vocative)
banacemu (predicative singular)
banacemus (plural predicative)


hut

nl-noun

hut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)

hutten (plural)
hutje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch hutte, from Middle High German hütte, from Old High German hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ.


kaczka

pl-noun

kaczka f (male equivalent kaczor, diminutive kaczuszka or kaczeczka, related adjective kaczczany or kaczczy or kaczkowy)

kaczor (masculine)
kaczuszka (diminutive)
kaczeczka (diminutive)
kaczczany (adjective)
kaczczy (adjective)
kaczkowy (adjective)
kaczka (nominative singular)
kaczki (nominative plural)
kaczki (genitive singular)
kaczek (genitive plural)
kaczce (dative singular)
kaczkom (dative plural)
kaczkę (accusative singular)
kaczki (accusative plural)
kaczką (instrumental singular)
kaczkami (instrumental plural)
kaczce (locative singular)
kaczkach (locative plural)
kaczko (singular vocative)
kaczki (plural vocative)

→ Low Prussian: Katschke

Inherited from Old Polish kaczka, from Proto-Slavic *kačьka. Probably onomatopoeic. Cognates include Czech kachna, kačka, and Slovak kačka, kačica.


room

en-noun

room (countable and uncountable, plural rooms)

→ Japanese: ルーム (rūmu)

→ Kikuyu: rumu

→ Maori: rūma

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
From Middle English roum, from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“free space”).
Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruimte (“space”) and Dutch ruim (“cargo load”), German Raum (“space, interior space”), Danish rum (“space, locality”), Norwegian rom (“space”), Swedish rum (“space, location”), and also with Latin rūs (“country, field, farm”) through Indo-European. More at rural.
In the standard language, it is ostensibly an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/, but /aʊ/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in standard Modern English native vocabulary. The pronunciation /ɹaʊm/ does occur in, for example, Lancashire.

inh

rum (/ɹʊm/) (without the foot-strut split)

nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

Go to your room!

She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.


toilet

Tok Pisin: toilet

→ Japanese: トイレット, トイレ

From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.

ашьашьма

room used for urination and defecation — see also bathroom, men's room, ladies' room, outhouse, portable toilet, latrine, shitter

toilet

fixture used for urination and defecation — see also flush toilet, squat toilet, chemical toilet, urinal, latrine

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class II § 191. Receptacle


toilet

/tʰɔːi̯⁵⁵ lɛːt̚²¹/

/tʰɔː⁵⁵ jiː²¹ lɛː²¹/

/tʰɔːi̯⁵⁵ lɛːt̚²¹/

/tʰɔː⁵⁵ jiː²¹ lɛː²¹/

From English toilet. The pronunciation toi¹ ji⁴ le⁴ is probably from Japanese トイレ (toire), in turn from English toilet.


toilet

head

toilet n (singular definite toilettet, plural indefinite toiletter)

toilettet (definite singular)
toiletter (indefinite plural)
toilet (indefinite nominative singular)
toilettet (definite nominative singular)
toiletter (indefinite nominative plural)
toiletterne (definite nominative plural)
toilets (genitive indefinite singular)
toilettets (definite genitive singular)
toiletters (genitive indefinite plural)
toiletternes (definite genitive plural)

From Old French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”).

toilet (fixture used for urination and defecation)


poop

en-noun

poop (countable and uncountable, plural poops)

Russian: пуп (pup)

Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.

cog

The dog poop is on the grass.


bullshit

→ Czech: bulšit

خَرَابِيط

vulgar slang for deceptive or exaggerated nonsense — see also nonsense

حَچِي فَاضِي

ħɐʃ͡ʒi fɑːðˤi

чушь соба́чья

čušʹ sobáčʹja

Oh, I get it! So it's not a pyramid, it's just pyramid-shaped. You know, like a Dorito, or an Angry Bird, or just a pile of bullshit.

2016 November 6, “Multilevel Marketing”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 29, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

(vulgar, literally) Feces produced by a bull.


cell

From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.

der

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell

Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.

A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.

2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 315:

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

صَوْمَعَة

room in a monastery for sleeping one person


bog

Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.
The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”).
Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.

I'm on the bog ― I'm sitting on/using the toilet

I'm in the bog ― I'm in the bathroom

Fearing I should catch cold, they out of pity covered me warm in a Bogg-house.

1665, Richard Head et al., The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, volume I:

...That no dirt... be thrown out of any window, or down the bogs...

a. 1789, Verses to John Howard F.R.S. on His State of Prisons and Lazarettos, published 1789, page 181:

Bog, or bog-house, a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.

1864, J.C. Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, page 79:

Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap, and our bog.

1959, William Golding, chapter I, in Free Fall, page 23:

(UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.

Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog.

2013, James Villas, Southern Fried: More Than 150 Recipes for Crab Cakes, Fried Chicken, Hush Puppies, and More, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 196:

I love Chicken Bog because it's one of those very regional recipes that has survived […] Don't skim or otherwise remove the fat from the stock though—it will help flavor the bog. Let the chicken cool and then pick the meat, setting it aside for the bog recipe that follows. The broth will[…]

2016 October 1, Elliott Moss, Buxton Hall Barbecue's Book of Smoke: Wood-Smoked Meat, Sides, and More, Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 113:

Chicken and rice bog for their supper so she wouldn't have to cook.

2018, Ann W Phillips, Lady Of Esterbrooke:


bog

en-verb

bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)

bogs (present singular third-person)
bogging (participle present)
bogged (participle past)
bogged (past)

(transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.


bog

From an abbreviation of Bogdanoff, in reference to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff.

(4chan, Internet slang, transitive) To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.

My nose is already pretty good and I don't want to bog myself.

2023 August 4, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

(4chan, Internet slang, reflexive) To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.


living

Unadapted borrowing from English living (room).


workshop

A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.

1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.

On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.

2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents:

A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.


workshop

en-verb

workshop (third-person singular simple present workshops, present participle workshopping, simple past and past participle workshopped)

workshops (present singular third-person)
workshopping (participle present)
workshopped (participle past)
workshopped (past)

(transitive) To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.

Some in-class tutorial time was set aside for workshopping the entries.

2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:

(transitive) To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.


dump

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.

onomatopoeic

imitative

A toxic waste dump.

A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.


box

en-noun

box (plural boxes or (nonstandard, computing, humorous) boxen)

boxes (plural)
boxen (humorous nonstandard plural)

Tok Pisin: bokis

→ Afrikaans: boks

→ Bengali: বাক্স (bakśo)

→ Bulgarian: бокс (boks)

→ Crimean Tatar: boks

→ Danish: boks

→ Dutch: box m

→ Faroese: boks

→ French: box m

→ German: Box f

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: बकस m (bakas), बक्सा m (baksā)

Urdu: بکس m (baks, bakas)

→ Icelandic: box n

→ Indonesian: boks

→ Irish: bosca m

→ Italian: box m

→ Japanese: ボックス (bokkusu)

→ Korean: 박스 (bakseu)

→ Maori: pāka

→ Marwari: बकस (baks, bakas)

→ Nepali: बाकस (bākas)

→ Norman: bosc m

→ Norwegian: boks m

→ Pashto: بکس (baks)

→ Persian: باکس (bâks)

→ Polish: boks m

→ Portuguese: box m

→ Russian: бокс m (boks)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bogsa m, bocsa

→ Spanish: box m

→ Swedish: box c

→ Welsh: bocs

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πῠ́ξος (púxos)
Ancient Greek -ις (-is)
Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís)bor.
Late Latin buxisbor.
Proto-West Germanic *buhsā
Old English box
Middle English box
English box
From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box”) from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”) and Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”). Doublet of piseog, pyx, and pyxis.
Cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish hjulbössa (“wheel-box”).
The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.

rasia

compartment or receptacle for receiving items

ramme

rectangular border around an image, text, etc.

ruutu

small area on a document for a tick mark

tofu

empty box displayed by some computer systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts

“I dare say the sheriff, or the mayor and corporation, or some of those sort of people, would give him money enough, for the use of it, to run him up a mighty pretty neat little box somewhere near Richmond.”

1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9:

Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.

1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 282:

What can a man know of a country or its people, who, merely passes through the former in a stage coach? […] Such were the arguments by which I induced myself to undertake a pedestrian trip to join my friend at his shooting-box, some hundred and fifty miles from Carlisle, where I had arrived from London; business compelling me to take that route.

[1840?], [John Mackay] Wilson, “The Runaway”, in Wilson’s Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: […], volume VI, number 273, Manchester: Published by James Ainsworth, […]; London: E. T. Brain & Co., […]; New York, N.Y.: R. T. Shannon, →OCLC, page 97:

Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.


box

From Latin bōx, from Ancient Greek βῶξ (bôx, “box (marine fish)”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye, view”), a reference to the large size of the fish's eyes relative to its body.

nb...

The Engravings by J􂀿oseph􂁀 W􂀿ilson􂁀 Lowry and Thomas Landseer, from Original Drawings by Sowerby, Varley, Holmes, Bone, Pyne, Lowry, and Charles Landseer; with Descriptive Letter-press Embracing a Systematic View of the Animal Kingdom, according to Cuvier, with Characteristic Anecdotes and Narratives Selected from the Works of Recent Naturalists.

BOX. Box (Boops), […] In both jaws a single anterior series of broad incisors, notched at the cutting margin; no molars.

1859, Albert Günther, “Fam. 7. SPARIDÆ”, in Catalogue of Acanthopterygian Fishes in the Collection of the British Museum, volume I (Gasterosteidæ, Berycidæ, Percidæ, Aphredoderidæ, Pristipomatidæ, Mullidæ, Sparidæ), London: Printed [by Taylor and Francis] by order of the trustees [of the British Museum], →OCLC, page 418:

The Bogue. […] Box or Boops. Generic Character.—Body elongated, rounded, the dorsal and ventral profiles alike, and the general aspect peculiarly trim.

1860, William Yarrell, “The Bogue”, in John Richardson, editor, Second Supplement to the First Edition of the History of British Fishes, […], London: John Van Voorst, […], →OCLC, page 6:

BOGUE. BOX. OXEYE. […] In some parts of the European side of the Mediterranean the Bogue is a common fish, and where it frequents it is in great abundance.

1862, Jonathan Couch, A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, volume I, London: Groombridge and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 225:

(dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.


loch

loszek (diminutive)
loch (nominative singular)
lochy (nominative plural)
lochu (genitive singular)
lochów (genitive plural)
lochowi (dative singular)
lochom (dative plural)
loch (accusative singular)
lochy (accusative plural)
lochem (instrumental singular)
lochami (instrumental plural)
lochu (locative singular)
lochach (locative plural)
lochu (singular vocative)
lochy (plural vocative)

dungeon (an underground prison or vault)

(colloquial, regional) cellar (esp. a pantry in the cellar)


厨

Originally a compound of 涅 (kuri, “black; dark-colored”, cognate with 黒 (kuro, “black”); in reference to the darkening of the walls from soot from cooking fires) + 屋 (ya, “house; shed”).

compound

cognate with <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">黒</i> (kuro, “black”); in reference to the darkening of the walls from soot from cooking fires


厨

ja-noun

厨(ちゅう) • (chū)

From Middle Chinese 廚 (MC drju). The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.


室

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hliɡ): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 至 (OC *tjiɡs). Its original meaning is "house, residence". The arrows also indicates that a residence is a place or spot in which somebody stops, like an arrow stuck on the ground, hence the phonetic component also adds part of the meaning. Hence, in accordance to this interpretation, the character can be understood as "a ⼧ roof over ⾄ this exact spot".
The character's modern meaning is "to arrive". Hence, according to 說文 Shuowen, it is analyzed as a 會意 semantic assembly, as he says "至所止 arrive at a specific place" symbolized by the roof.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-li(s). Cognate to Tibetan གཞིས (gzhis) < གལྱི (glyi, “ground, foundation, cause; residence, abode”), ས་གཞི (sa gzhi, “earth (opposite to sky)”), གཞིས (gzhis, “native place”), ཡུལ་གཞིས (yul gzhis, “house, estate, property”), གཞིས་སྒྲིལ་བ (gzhis sgril ba, “to move, to change one's abode”). Also cognate to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *mliy, from which Burmese မြေ (mre, “earth, soil”) is derived.

Han compound

(literary, or in compounds) work unit; administrative unit


屎

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hliʔ, *hri): phonetic 尸 (OC *hli, “body”) + semantic 米 (“rice”). The 米 component was originally three (, representing 小, as seen in ), four (, representing 少) or five dots (as seen in ) forming a ideogrammic representation of faeces in the oracle bone script, with four dots being the most common variant, thus representing a man defecating with faeces coming out of the backside. The Shang dynasty variants saw the 尸 ("body") component interchangeable with 人 ("human"); later, by the Western Zhou dynasty, 尸 variants with four dots became the dominant and sole-surviving form, however examples from this time period also exist where the 尸 component is mistaken for 尾 ("tail"), as seen in . During the Warring States period, the 少 component became corrupted into 米.
Shuowen Jiezi does not feature the 屎 character, however it does contain 𦳊 and 𡕝. 𦳊 is listed in Shuowen as deriving from 艸 ("grass") and 胃 ("stomach"), while 𡲴 is listed as the ancient form of 徙 (“migration”), however in reality this is not the case; 𡲴 is an erroneous form of the 屎 variant containing 尾, where the tail portion of the 尾 component is mistakenly written as 火. During the Zhou dynasty, 屎 was often used as a phonetic borrowing for 徙 (OC *selʔ); moreover, during the Warring States period, the Chu script character for 徙 consisted of 屎 with an additional 辵 (modern radical form 辶) added to represent the meaning of walking.
Following transition to the clerical script, a variety of alternative forms emerged:
*The 米 component was replaced with phonetic component 矢 (OC *hliʔ) thus creating the variant form 𡱁;
*Some variants added another 米 radical to create 𥻐 and 𥺶;
*Existing variants containing the 尾 component became 𡲔 and 𡱵;
*The body portion of 𡲴 also became further corrupted into 夂 (zhǐ), creating 𡕝;
*The tail portion of 尾-based variants became corrupted into 巛, creating 𡲑;
*The 尸 component corrupted into 广, creating 𢈍;
*Even the variant form 𢈍 became corrupted, where the 广 was simplified into 宀, creating 宩.
All of these variant forms failed to gain widespread usage, and eventually faded into obscurity while 屎 remained the dominant character variant.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kləj (“excrement”).

Han compound

𦳊
宩
𡱁
𡲑
𡲔
𡲖
𥺶
𥻐

excrement; poop (Classifier: 坨 m; 篤／笃 c; 坺 c; 箍 mn)

secretion from the body; tear, earwax, snot, etc.

ngo⁵ di¹ jing¹ man⁴⁻² gong² dak¹ hou² si².

我啲英文講得好屎。

我啲英文讲得好屎。

(Cantonese) shitty; bad; poor; of inferior quality


廳

→? Vietnamese: sảnh

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰeːŋ): semantic 广 (“house”) + phonetic 聽 (OC *l̥ʰeːŋ, *l̥ʰeːŋs).
According to Jiyun, from 聽／听 (tīng), short for 聽事／听事.

Han compound

廳 / 厅 (tīng ‘hearing [hall]’): The people of old called the government officials' bureaus ‘[halls for] hearing cases’; later the expression is shortened to just ‘hearing [hall]’; so the radical 广 (yǎn) would be added.

Tīng, gǔzhě zhìguān chù wèi zhī tīngshì, hòu yǔ xǐng zhí yuē tīng, gù jiā yǎn.

廳，古者治官處謂之聽事，後語省直曰聽，故加广。

厅，古者治官处谓之听事，后语省直曰听，故加广。

I am sleeping in the living room tonight.

我今晚瞓廳。

我今晚𰥛厅。

(Cantonese) living room and/or dining room


局

a private room in a palace or noble residence created by subdividing a larger room or gallery with curtains and screens


ballroom

en-verb

ballroom (third-person singular simple present ballrooms, present participle ballrooming, simple past and past participle ballroomed)

ballrooms (present singular third-person)
ballrooming (participle present)
ballroomed (participle past)
ballroomed (past)

(intransitive) To take part in ballroom dancing.


feces

From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.

We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces.

2011 June 21, Kay E. Holekamp, “Why Study Hyenas?”, in The New York Times:

Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement.


瀉

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sjaːʔ, *sjaːɡs): semantic 水 + phonetic 寫 (OC *sjaːʔ).


excrement

en-noun

excrement (countable and uncountable, plural excrements)

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excernō (“I excrete”).

(now specifically) Human and non-human animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.


manure

manure (countable and uncountable, plural manures)

From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver), from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”).

der

1985, Biff Tannen (portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson), Back to the Future.
I hate manure!

1988, Dave Mustaine, "Hook in Mouth", Megadeth, So Far, So Good... So What!.
M, they will cover your grave with manure

[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.

2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G7:

Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.


糞

→ Vietnamese: phân

Oracle bone: pictogram (象形): 3 dots + 𠀠 + 廾 + optional 帚 (zhǒu).
Small seal: pictogram (象形): 釆 + 𠦒 + 廾.
The current glyph is from the small seal script.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brun (“excrement”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan བྲུན (brun, “dung”).

粪
𨤝
𥻔
𥽒
𨤘
𥻰
𥻪
𡐢
𥼇
𥼈
𥹻
𢍨
𥻎
𤲲
𡊅
𡊄


糞

From Old Japanese, in turn from Proto-Japonic *kuso.
Cognate with 臭い (kusai, “stinky, smelly”), 腐る (kusaru, “to rot, to become stinky”).

このノートパソコンはクソだ！

(by extension) shit, crap, garbage, trash


糞

下手糞

crappy (bad at something), to be shit at doing something

襤褸糞

crappy, for shit: a derogatory emphasizing suffix.


糞

糞 (canonical)
糞 (canonical)
fun (romanization)

/pun/ → /fun/
From Middle Chinese 糞 (MC pjunH).

ふれあい動物園のモルモットが受けるストレスを糞中コルチコステロンによって推定する試み

fureai dōbutsuen no morumotto ga ukeru sutoresu o funchū koruchikosuteron ni yotte suitei suru kokoromi

Non-invasive monitoring of stress via fecal corticosterone levels in guinea pigs on public display


糞

Appears to derive from baby talk. Compare English poopoo and Mandarin 㞎㞎 (bǎba).


bath

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.

etymon

barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)

The master bath has two sinks.

(real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.


lavatory

From Middle English lavatorie, from Late Latin lavātōrium, from Latin lavāre (“to wash”) + -ium (forming places related to an activity). Doublet of lavatorium. As a place to pan gold, via Spanish lavadero. See also lave.

A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly:

(Christianity) A lavabo: the basin used for washing one's hands before handling the Eucharist.

(Christianity) The lavabo: the ritual washing of hands before handling the eucharist.

Even the lavatory, a vestibule to the refectory through which the novices would pass on their way to the recreation room, boasted a painting cycle.

2003, Gauvin A. Bailey, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610, page 61:

(dated) A washroom: a room used for washing the face and hands.

(obsolete) A paved room in a mortuary where corpses are kept under a shower of disinfecting fluid.


po

pô (canonical masculine)
pôn (possessed-form)


puer

A solution called the ‘pure’ or the 'pewer' (having never seen the word written.., we must spell it as pronounced) is prepared in a large vessel, and into this the skins are immersed.

[…] The bacteria of fresh dog-dung were not found to possess a satisfactory puering effect, but those from dung with had been fermented a month (as in practice) have a result nearly equal to actual puer.

1903, Henry Richardson Proctor, The principles of leather manufacture, page 174:

[…] it was about 50 years before the use of puer was discontinued, at least in Europe.

2009, Tony Covington, Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather, page 166:

(chiefly historical) Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins.


toilet paper

en-noun

toilet paper (usually uncountable, plural toilet papers)

desc

টয়লেট পেপার

→ Bengali: টয়লেট পেপার (ṭoẏleṭ pepar)

→ Hindi: टॉयलेट पेपर (ṭŏyleṭ pepar)

→ Japanese: トイレットペーパー (toiretto pēpā)

→ Korean: 토일렛 페이퍼 (toillet peipeo)

ٹائِلِٹ پیپَر

→ Urdu: ٹائِلِٹ پیپَر (ṭāiliṭ pepar)

→ Urdu: ٹائِلِٹ پیپَر (ṭāiliṭ pepar)

Paper, usually on a roll, to clean oneself after defecation, or to pat oneself dry after urination.

toiletpapier

paper to clean oneself after defecation or urination


berth

The noun is derived from Late Middle English birth (“(nautical) bearing away or off, clearance, berth”); further etymology uncertain, probably from beren (“to carry (away), bear”) + -th (suffix denoting a condition, quality, state of being, etc., forming nouns), Beren is derived from Old English beran (“to carry, hold, bear”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran (“to carry, bear”), from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to carry, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to be carrying”), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). If so, the English word is analysable as bear + -th (suffix forming nouns from verbs), and is a piecewise doublet of birth.
The verb is derived from the noun.

pelivara

(nautical) sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre; (figurative) sufficient room or space for manoeuvring or safety

And vvhen he had ſhevvn me their birth (as he called it) I vvas filled vvith aſtoniſhment and horror.—VVe deſcended by divers ladders to a ſpace as dark as a dungeon, vvhich I underſtood vvas immerſed ſeveral feet under vvater, being immediately above the hold: I had no ſooner approached this diſmal gulph, than my noſe vvas ſaluted vvith an intolerable ſtench of putrified cheeſe, and rancid butter, […]

1748, [Tobias Smollett], “I am Reduced to Great Misery—Assaulted on Tower-hill by a Press-gang, who Put Me on Board a Tender—My Usage there—My Arrival on Board of the Thunder Man of War, […]”, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume I, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 226:

But not only was this the first day that Jack may be said to have appeared in the service, but it was the first day in which he had entered the midshipman's berth, and was made acquainted with his messmates.

1836, [Frederick Marryat], “Showing how Jack transgresses against his own philosophy”, in Mr. Midshipman Easy […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, pages 141–142:

(nautical) Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore.

(by extension) A room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a vessel for storage.

messi

room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess and reside; room or other place in a vessel for storage

Olivier Giroud then entered the fray and [Theo] Walcott reverted to his more familiar berth on the right wing, quickly creating his side's fifth goal by crossing for Giroud to send a plunging header into the net from close range.

2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-16:

(figurative)
(sports)
A position on a field of play.


loft

en-noun

loft (countable and uncountable, plural lofts)

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).
Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.


cubiculum

en-noun

cubiculum (plural cubiculums or cubicula)

Learned borrowing from Latin cubiculum (“bedroom”). Doublet of cubicle.

lbor

A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house.

A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as mortuary chapels, and in Roman times, for Christian worship.


cubiculum

la-noun

cubiculum n (genitive cubiculī); second declension

cubiculī (genitive)
cubiculum (nominative singular)
cubicula (nominative plural)
cubiculī (genitive singular)
cubiculōrum (genitive plural)
cubiculō (dative singular)
cubiculīs (dative plural)
cubiculum (accusative singular)
cubicula (accusative plural)
cubiculō (ablative singular)
cubiculīs (ablative plural)
cubiculum (singular vocative)
cubicula (plural vocative)

Catalan: cubicle

→ English: cubicle

Galician: acubillo

Portuguese: cubículo

Spanish: cubículo, cobijo

→ Proto-Brythonic:

Middle Welsh: kuðugyl

Welsh: cuddygl, cufygl

[kʊˈbɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]


ini

init (plural)
ini (absolutive singular)
init (absolutive plural)
inip (ergative singular)
init (ergative plural)
inimik (instrumental singular)
ininik (instrumental plural)
inimut (allative singular)
ininut (allative plural)
inimit (ablative singular)
ininit (ablative plural)
inimi (locative singular)
inini (locative plural)
inikkut (singular)
initigut (plural)
initut (equative)
iniga (absolutive singular)
inikka (absolutive plural)
inima (ergative)
ininnik (instrumental)
ininnut (allative)
ininnit (ablative)
ininni (locative)
inikkut
inittut (equative)

From Proto-Inuit *ǝnǝ (“place, room, house”), from Proto-Eskimo *ǝnǝ (“dwelling place, house”).


avis

avisa (definite singular)
avisen (definite singular)
aviser (indefinite plural)
avisene (definite plural)

→ Kven: aviisi

From French avis (“opinion, notice; piece of advise”), from Middle French advis (“opinion”), from Old French avis (“opinion”), from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin vīsum (“vision, image”). Doublet of advis.
Cognate with Danish avis, Italian avviso, Middle English avys and English avis.

bor

hun er ansatt i en avis

(media) a financial enterprise that consists of publishing a newspaper; newspaper agency


crapper

From crap + -er, although possibly repopularized by barracks employing Thomas Crapper's plumbing fixtures used during the First World War. The occupational surname Crapper derives from a dialectal variant of cropper (“harvester of crops, farmer”).

(vulgar slang) A chamber pot or toilet, particularly (dated) a flush toilet by Thomas Crapper.

paskahuussi

coarse slang for a device or place to defecate — see also chamber pot, toilet, lavatory, outhouse


lounge

German: Lounge

Japanese: ラウンジ (raunji)

Korean: 라운지 (raunji)

Swedish: lounge

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from French s’allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer (“to walk along”). Compare also German lungern (“to hang or lounge around, linger”).

cog

The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.

1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 18, in The Subtle Minotaur:

(British) The living room or sitting room of a house.


poo

en-noun

poo (countable and uncountable, plural poos)

մեծ գործ (mec gorc) (euphemism, literally "big work")

Poo... feces.

1960, Harold Wentworth et al., Dictionary of American Slang, page 401:

Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

2018, Brent Butt, “Sasquatch Your Language”, in Corner Gas Animated:


bureau

→ Brazilian Portuguese: birô

→ Catalan: buró

→ Crimean Tatar: büro

→ Dutch: bureau

→ English: bureau

→ German: Büro

→ Haitian Creole: biwo

→ Lingala: biló

→ Piedmontese: burò

→ Polish: biuro

→ Romanian: birou

→ Russian: бюро́ (bjuró)

→ Sedang: bơrô

→ Spanish: buró

→ Swedish: byrå

→ Tamil: பீரோ (pīrō)

→ Turkish: büro

Inherited from Old French burel, diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”).


bar

pl-noun

bar m inan (diminutive barek, related adjective barowy)

barek (diminutive)
barowy (adjective)
bar (nominative singular)
bary (nominative plural)
baru (genitive singular)
barów (genitive plural)
barowi (dative singular)
barom (dative plural)
bar (accusative singular)
bary (accusative plural)
barem (instrumental singular)
barami (instrumental plural)
barze (locative singular)
barach (locative plural)
barze (singular vocative)
bary (plural vocative)

bar, public house (business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves)

bar, luncheon bar, buffet, wet bar (area for the preparation of alcoholic drinks, equipped with a countertop having a sink and running water and usually located in a home, hotel room, or similar quarters)


bar

baryczny (adjective)
bar (nominative singular)
bary (nominative plural)
bara (genitive singular)
barów (genitive plural)
barowi (dative singular)
barom (dative plural)
bar (accusative singular)
bary (accusative plural)
barem (instrumental singular)
barami (instrumental plural)
barze (locative singular)
barach (locative plural)
barze (singular vocative)
bary (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).

lbor

bar (non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level)


zotheca

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ζωθήκη (zōthḗkē).

(historical) In ancient Rome, a small living room, as distinguished from a room for sleeping: an alcove.


loo

Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene xi]:


loo

en-verb

loo (third-person singular simple present loos, present participle looing, simple past and past participle looed)

loos (present singular third-person)
looing (participle present)
looed (participle past)
looed (past)

And therefore next uncouple either Hound [sc. George Monck and Prince Rupert],
And loo them at two Hares ere one be found.

1667, John Denham, Directions to a Painter, ll. 21 f:

(now dialect, used with at, upon or infinitive) To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.


loo

From French loup (“wolf; mask, eyemask”). Doublet of lobo, lupus, and wolf.

Loo Mask. An half Mask.

a. 1685, Mary Evelyn, “The Fop-dictionary”, in Mundus Muliebris, page 18:

(fashion, obsolete) A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.


loo

From Hindi लू (lū), ultmately from Sanskrit उल्का (ulkā, “flame”).

It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Would Be King”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, page 78:

(India) A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.


cafeteria

Borrowed from Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of cafetière.

bor+

(chiefly US, Canada) A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.


turd

From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tord, from Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle.

cog

Ugh, there are turds in the toilet that haven’t been flushed away.

Thy teeth more comely than two dirty rakes are, / Thy breath is stronger than a douzen jakes are. / A fart for all perfumes, a turd for roses / Smell men but thee, they wish them selves all noses.

1658, John Mennes; James Smith, “A Poeticall Poem, by Mr. Stephen Locket to Mistrisse Bess Sarney”, in Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, OCLC 230583538, page 203

How gladly would I have ſtopt the filthy mouth of that long-tongued fellow with a turd!

1671, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Sermon, or Merdardus”, in H. M., transl., Colloquies, London: H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, page 462:

[H]e's nea in a Banter by my Saul, gin ye had bean bye when he wreet, ye wold ha ſeen his Face furrow'd lik a dry Cow-Turd, an his Eyn as keen as an Engliſh Bull-Dog, an his Back as high as a Camels, ſo grat was his Wrath, an now he be a Soldier it be tan Times bigger.

1715, John Philips, The Earl of Mar Marr'd. With the Humours of Jockey, The Highlander: A Tragi-comical Farce, 2nd edition, London: E. Curll, →OCLC, act II, scene ii, page 11:

When he met with any of them upon the Street, he would never fail to put ſome Trick or other upon them; ſometimes putting a fry'd Turd in their graduate Hoods; […] One Day that the Theologians were appointed all to meet in the Sorbonne, he made a Barbonneſa Tart, made of Store of Garlick, Galbanum, Aſſa fœtida, Caſtoreum, Dogs Turds very warm; which he ſteep'd, temper'd, and liquify'd in the corrupt Matter of pocky Biles and peſtiferous Botches; and, very early in the Morning, therewith anointed all the Lattices and Grates of the Sorbonne in ſuch ſort, that the Devil could not have endured it.

1737, Francis Rabelais, “Of the Qualities and Conditions of Panurge”, in John Ozell, transl., The Works of Francis Rabelais …, book II (Gargantua and Pantagruel), London: J. Brindley, C. Corbett, →OCLC, pages 142–143:

[…] just as Snitter felt himself exhausted and unable to do more, Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus […]

Thus, an insect that has evolved the useful disguise of looking very much like a piece of dung in order to damp the enthusiasm of any non-coprophagous predator is clearly on to a good thing but, as Stephen Jay Gould has wisely observed, what is the adaptive value in looking only 5 per cent like a turd?

1986 December 11, Ralph Estling, “You're a good man, Charlie Darwin”, in New Scientist, volume 112, number 1538, London: IPC Magazines, →OCLC, page 56:

Hell, as bird number 697 they could have looked like old turds and I still would have got excited.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 292:

The sausage on my plate could have been a turd, it tasted like a turd, it smelled like a turd, it had the texture of a turd. In fact, thinking about it, it probably was a turd.

2012, Sue Townsend, The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN:

(informal, mildly vulgar) A piece of solid animal or human feces.


draught

en-noun

draught (countable and uncountable, plural draughts)

From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t.

Sense 1 of draft:
She could feel a draught where she was sitting.

[…]he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:

“Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short draughts—long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

Finally I gave him a draught, and he sank into uneasy slumber.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 35”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. […]

Senses 4, 5 of draft: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter iii

All the L.N.E.R. Clyde vessels are paddle-propelled, because of the shallow draught at Craigendoran Pier.

1946 July and August, “Notes and News: The War Effect on the Clyde Steamers”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:

A standard type of donkey jacket made of white milled flannel is being introduced by British Railways for the use of staff working in tunnels where there are conditions of extreme cold, dampness and draught.

1953 November, “Notes and News: New Clothing for Tunnel Workers”, in Railway Magazine, page 783:

(British spelling) Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.

(British) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.

Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught?

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:

Rid me these Villaines from your companies; / Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught, / Confound them by some course, and come to me, / Ile giue you Gold enough.

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

(obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.


vestry

From Anglo-Norman vesterie, from Old French vestiaire (“room for vestments, dressing room”), from Latin vestiarium (“wardrobe”). Doublet of vestiary.

uder

The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry.

A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes; a sacristy.


coprophagic

en-adj

coprophagic (comparative more coprophagic, superlative most coprophagic)

more coprophagic (comparative)
most coprophagic (superlative)

In his painting, Le Jeu Lugubre, he says, ‘the drawers bespattered with excrement were painted with such minute and realistic complacency that the whole little Surrealist group was anguished by the question: Is he coprophagic or not?’

1944, George Orwell, Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali:


coprolite

Almost inevitably, he became the leading authority on coprolites – fossilized faeces – and had a table made entirely out of his collection of specimens.

2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything:

Analyses of the DNA fragments preserved in the moa and kakapo coprolites showed that moa and kakapo fed on fungi.

2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:


coprophile

From copro- (“dung”) + -phile (“loving”).

(ecology) An organism (typically microorganisms and fungi) living off or growing in dung or other fecal matter.


geography

en-noun

geography (countable and uncountable, plural geographies)

/dʒiˈɒɡɹəfi/

/d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/

From Middle French géographie, from Latin geōgraphia, from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία (geōgraphía, “a description of the earth”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).
Use in reference to lavatories derives from the mid-20th century euphemism "show one the geography of the house" in reference to pointing out the toilets.

uder

(archaic, countable) An atlas or gazetteer.


stove

stova (definite singular)
stover (indefinite plural)
stovene (definite plural)

From Old Norse stofa (also stoga and stufa). Akin to English stove.


snug

en-adj

snug (comparative snugger, superlative snuggest)

snugger (comparative)
snuggest (superlative)

From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), perhaps from Old Norse snøggr, from Proto-Germanic *snawwuz (“short, quick, fast”). Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg (“handsome, nice-looking”).

cog

[I]t does make it clear that adding the keyboard case to the PinePhone will more than double the thickness. You may still be able to slide the whole thing into your pocket, but it’s likely to be more of a snug fit than when using the phone on its own.

2021 April 23, Brad Linder, “PinePhone keyboard prototype transforms the Linux phone into a tiny Linux laptop”, in Linux Smartphones:


salle à manger

fr-noun

salle à manger f (plural salles à manger)

Turkish: salamanje

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ratshit

“Do you think they have ratshit in them?” Wynkyn asked. “Swan says most hamburgers have ratshit in them.”

1978, Larry McMurtry, Somebody′s Darling, published 2002, page 228:

‘Terry stop it! R—′s on, remember. If we get busted we′re ratshit. We′ll never see each other again.’

1984, Gabrielle Carey, Just Us, page 106:

He slammed the choke in again. ‘No, don′t you stall, you ratshit plane!’

1987, Stephen King, The Tommyknockers, unnumbered page:

“Aw, who cares? It′s all going to hell anyway. You have your turn, eat, get drunk, screw; and fifty years from now none of it′ll matter a ratshit.”

1992, James P. Hogan, The Multiplex Man, published 2011, page 46:

So they pulled the furniture away from the wall and found a pile of little dried ratshit pellets behind the dresser.

1995, Anne Cameron., Wedding Cakes, Rats and Rodeo Queens, page 61:

(vulgar, literal or figurative) The excrement of a rat.


study

en-noun

study (countable and uncountable, plural studies)

From Middle English studie, from Old French estudie (Modern French étude), borrowed from Latin studium (“zeal, dedication, study”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to push, hit”). Doublet of etude and studio.

der

Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.

his cheery little study

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introductory”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.


anteroom

[T]his was one of the anterooms off the main throneroom in which the king was accustomed to hold court with his entire retinue.

1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 19, in Tarzan the Untamed:

Several antique games, such as a skiddles table, occupy an upstairs anteroom.

1997, Michael McKenzie, Arrowhead Home of the Chiefs:

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.


den

From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”).

cog

Our little girls love using bedsheets and other stuff around the house to make dens in the living room and pretending they're on adventures.

Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”)

fort

A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.

جُحْر

for smaller carnivores, rodents and reptiles


den

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

Pronunciation spelling of then, representing AAVE, Bermuda English.


attic

From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).

atelier

artist or artisan's space, sometimes in an attic (loft)

We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.

In my Wonderland, I'm back on my Alice
Back in my palace, I'm fly like Aladdin
Serving my fans all my dope, 'cause they addicts
Haters mad 'cause I'm on top like an attic
And if it's beef then we're shooting sporadic
Game is like Disney, my words are like magic

2018, “Cash Maniac”, performed by Denzel Curry:

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.


koti

eo-head

koti (present kotas, past kotis, future kotos, conditional kotus, volitive kotu)

kotas (present)
kotis (past)
kotos (future)
kotus (conditional)
kotu (volitive)
kotas (present)
kotis (past)
kotos (future)
kotanta (active participle present singular)
kotantaj (active participle plural present)
kotinta (active participle past singular)
kotintaj (active participle past plural)
kotonta (active future participle singular)
kotontaj (active future participle plural)
kotantan (accusative active participle present singular)
kotantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
kotintan (accusative active participle past singular)
kotintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
kotontan (accusative active future participle singular)
kotontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
kotata (participle passive present singular)
kotataj (participle passive plural present)
kotita (participle passive past singular)
kotitaj (participle passive past plural)
kotota (future participle passive singular)
kototaj (future participle passive plural)
kotatan (accusative participle passive present singular)
kotatajn (accusative participle passive plural present)
kotitan (accusative participle passive past singular)
kotitajn (accusative participle passive past plural)
kototan (accusative future participle passive singular)
kototajn (accusative future participle passive plural)
kotanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
kotantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
kotinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
kotintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
kotonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
kotontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
kotanton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
kotantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
kotinton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
kotintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
kotonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
kotontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
kotato (noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
kotatoj (noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
kotito (noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
kotitoj (noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
kototo (future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
kototoj (future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
kotaton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
kotatojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
kotiton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
kotitojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
kototon (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
kototojn (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
kotante (active adverbial participle present)
kotinte (active adverbial participle past)
kotonte (active adverbial future participle)
kotate (adverbial participle passive present)
kotite (adverbial participle passive past)
kotote (adverbial future participle passive)
koti (infinitive)
kotu (imperative)
kotus (conditional)

From koto (“mud”) + -i (infinitive verb suffix). When used in the meaning “to defecate”, a calque of German koten.


WC

→ Czech: WC

→ Dutch: wc

→ Estonian: veetsee, vets

→ Finnish: WC, vessa

→ French: WC

→ Greek: βεσέ (vesé)

→ German: WC

→ Hungarian: WC

→ Polish: WC, wuce

→ Portuguese: WC

→ Romanian: WC, veceu

→ Serbo-Croatian: WC, vece

In the summer of 1877, a gentleman with whom I was well acquainted, took lodgings in Preston-street, Brighton. The morning after his arrival, he found in the W.C. some leaves of an old black-letter book.

1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 54:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Initialism of water closet: a lavatory; a toilet.


WC

WC-k (plural)
WC (nominative singular)
WC-k (nominative plural)
WC-t (accusative singular)
WC-ket (accusative plural)
WC-nek (dative singular)
WC-knek (dative plural)
WC-vel (instrumental singular)
WC-kkel (instrumental plural)
WC-ért (causal-final singular)
WC-kért (causal-final plural)
WC-vé (singular translative)
WC-kké (plural translative)
WC-ig (singular terminative)
WC-kig (plural terminative)
WC-ként (essive-formal singular)
WC-kként (essive-formal plural)
WC-ben (inessive singular)
WC-kben (inessive plural)
WC-n (singular superessive)
WC-ken (plural superessive)
WC-nél (adessive singular)
WC-knél (adessive plural)
WC-be (illative singular)
WC-kbe (illative plural)
WC-re (singular sublative)
WC-kre (plural sublative)
WC-hez (allative singular)
WC-khez (allative plural)
WC-ből (elative singular)
WC-kből (elative plural)
WC-ről (delative singular)
WC-kről (delative plural)
WC-től (ablative singular)
WC-ktől (ablative plural)
WC-é (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
WC-ké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
WC-éi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
WC-kéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
WC-m (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
WC-im (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
WC-d (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
WC-id (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
WC-je (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
WC-i (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
WC-nk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
WC-ink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
WC-tek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
WC-itek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
WC-jük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
WC-ik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


vesi

fo-noun

vesi n (genitive singular vesis, plural vesi or vesir)

vesis (genitive singular)
vesi (plural)
vesir (plural)
vesi (indefinite nominative singular)
vesið (definite nominative singular)
vesi (indefinite nominative plural)
vesir (indefinite nominative plural)
vesini (definite nominative plural)
vesi (accusative indefinite singular)
vesið (accusative definite singular)
vesi (accusative indefinite plural)
vesir (accusative indefinite plural)
vesini (accusative definite plural)
vesi (dative indefinite singular)
vesnum (dative definite singular)
vesinum (dative definite singular)
vesum (dative indefinite plural)
vesunum (dative definite plural)
vesis (genitive indefinite singular)
vesisins (definite genitive singular)
vesa (genitive indefinite plural)
vesanna (definite genitive plural)


dung

en-noun

dung (countable and uncountable, plural dungs)

From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).

der

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Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool[…]

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 129:

Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 2:3:

The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.

1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496:


dung

dung (nominative singular)
dunga (nominative plural)
dunge (nominative plural)
dunge (accusative singular)
dunga (accusative plural)
dunge (accusative plural)
dunge (genitive singular)
dunga (genitive plural)
dunge (dative singular)
dungum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: donge, dong, donke, doung, dounge, dung, dunge
English: dung
Scots: dung

From Proto-Germanic *dungō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).


urinal

From Middle English urinal, urynal, orynal, from Old French urinal, orinal (“vessel for urination”), from Latin ūrīnālis (“urinary”). Use for plumbing fixtures attested from 1851.

/ˈjʉːəɹɪnəl/

A device or fixture used for urination, particularly:

(historical medicine and alchemy) A glass vial used for examining or storing urine.

(obsolete) A device for urination worn by patients suffering incontinence.

A plumbing fixture intended for standing urination, typically by men and boys.

(obsolete) A room or structure used for urination: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.


urinal

From Middle French urinal, from Late Latin ūrīnālis, equivalent to urine + -al.

/ˈjʉːəɹɪnəl/

If on the other hand it is to be used by a congregation, which as a rule, only occupy their church once, twice or three times a week, then I would suggest where it can be obtained that an improved “water closet” be used, and by this I mean a urinal and fecal basin, which can be kept clean by liberal flushing with water after each time it is used, and so trapped and ventilated as to absolutely protect the room in which it is placed from any contamination whatever.[…]This same closet can be arranged for urinal purposes by having the lid of the seat for each person attached to a hinge so that it can be raised up when desired to be used for micturation^([sic]) only.

1892, R. Harvey Reed, “How Can We Control the Privy Vault Nuisance?”, in Gilbert I. Cullen, editor, The Cincinnati Medical Journal, volume VII, number 4, Cincinnati, Oh.: M. A. Spencer & Co., pages 130–131:

Q. What amount, in cubic feet, would there be in Port Huron for one year, of fecal and urinal discharge into the sewers?

1903, In the Supreme Court of the United States: The State of Missouri vs. the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, pages 2504–2505:

Urinal and fecal wastes were placed in runoff boxes at the base, midpoint and top of 20cm snow packs. The units were subjected to carefully controlled temperature fluctuations ranging from 8 to 12 degrees C. Urinal losses were determined primarily by the quantity of water which passed through the manure layer. Fecal nitrogen losses were much lower than urinal losses.

1975, G. D. Bubenzer, J. C. Converse, Impact of Freezing and Thawing Soil Conditions on the Movement of Nutrients by Water from Rural Lands:


urinal

head

urinal n (singular definite urinalet, plural indefinite urinaler)

urinalet (definite singular)
urinaler (indefinite plural)
urinal (indefinite nominative singular)
urinalet (definite nominative singular)
urinaler (indefinite nominative plural)
urinalerne (definite nominative plural)
urinals (genitive indefinite singular)
urinalets (definite genitive singular)
urinalers (genitive indefinite plural)
urinalernes (definite genitive plural)

[uɐ̯iˈnæːˀl]

From Late Latin ūrīnāle, neuter of ūrīnālis (“pertaining to urine”).


poep

nl-noun

poep f (plural poepen, diminutive poepje n)

poepen (plural)
poepje (diminutive neuter)

(uncountable, Netherlands, humorous in Belgium) shit


poep

From French poupe (“poop, stern”). Ultimately from Latin puppis.

(colloquial, Belgium) a butt, bottom, behind, rear-end, hiney, tush


kaki

eo-head

kaki (present kakas, past kakis, future kakos, conditional kakus, volitive kaku)

kakas (present)
kakis (past)
kakos (future)
kakus (conditional)
kaku (volitive)
kakas (present)
kakis (past)
kakos (future)
kakanta (active participle present singular)
kakantaj (active participle plural present)
kakinta (active participle past singular)
kakintaj (active participle past plural)
kakonta (active future participle singular)
kakontaj (active future participle plural)
kakantan (accusative active participle present singular)
kakantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
kakintan (accusative active participle past singular)
kakintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
kakontan (accusative active future participle singular)
kakontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
kakanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
kakantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
kakinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
kakintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
kakonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
kakontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
kakanton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
kakantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
kakinton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
kakintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
kakonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
kakontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
kakante (active adverbial participle present)
kakinte (active adverbial participle past)
kakonte (active adverbial future participle)
kaki (infinitive)
kaku (imperative)
kakus (conditional)

From Latin cacō, Ancient Greek κᾰκκᾰ́ω (kakkáō), Italian cacare, German kacken, English cack, Polish kakać, Russian какать (kakatʹ), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.


shithouse

From shit + house. Compare Middle Low German schîthûs, German Scheißhaus, Swedish skithus, Icelandic skíthús.

The stupefied bus driver kept ranting and raving at him. “You could have been stuffed, mate! Once the water splits it would have been the most shithouse moment in your life, and the last one! This beach is for crocs only![…]”

2005, Eckhard Otto Hardy Marthen, Otto, page 334:

The story goes that when she applied for the job, they were fearful of hiring her because she was ‘much more shithouse than them’. I cannot imagine anyone being worse than those two but she did give it a good go.

2010, Brian Cadd, From This Side of Things, page 255:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) Of poor quality.


portable toilet

en-noun

portable toilet (plural portable toilets)

The 0812 Huddersfield-Sheffield service struck the stabiliser leg of a lorry being used to take away portable toilets after local repair work.

2021 December 29, “Network News: RAIB: tighten up supervision after 27mph train sideswipe incident”, in RAIL, number 947, page 8:

A movable toilet, particularly a portable outhouse used where other lavatories are unavailable (as at a construction site) or insufficient (as at special events).


outhouse

From Middle English outhous, equivalent to out- + house. Compare Old Norse úthús (“outhouse”).

(Canada, US) An outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.

There was a considerable outhouse, which he unlocked and we entered.

1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:

[…] plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses

1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

(dated) Any outbuilding: any small structure located apart from a main building.

външен клозет

outdoor toilet — see also shithouse, latrine, toilet


厨房

ja-noun

厨(ちゅう)房(ぼう) • (chūbō)

Alternative kana conversion of 中(ちゅう)坊(ぼう) (chūbō).

ja-r

中(ちゅう)坊(ぼう) (chūbō)

(Internet slang, derogatory) Internet troll


ward

en-noun

ward (countable and uncountable, plural wards)

→ Swahili: wodi

From Middle English ward, warde, from Old English weard (“watching, ward, protection, guardianship; advance post; waiting for, lurking, ambuscade”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardu, from Proto-Germanic *wardō (“protection, attention, keeping”), an extension of the stem *wara- (“attentive”) (English wary, beware), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”).
Cognate with German Warte (“watchtower”), warten (“wait for”); English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.

inh

A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.

(Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.


ward

head

ward m (genitive singular ward, plural wardyn)

ward (genitive singular)
wardyn (plural)


roost

From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōst, from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan.
Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).

inh

the highest branch is not the safest roost

(Scotland) The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.


kamer

nl-noun

kamer f (plural kamers, diminutive kamertje n)

kamers (plural)
kamertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: kamer

Berbice Creole Dutch: kambru

→ Lokono: kambara

desctree

→ Malay: kamar
Indonesian: kamar
→ Petjo: kamar
→ Ternate: kamar

→ Javanese: ꦏꦩꦂ (kamar)
> Caribbean Javanese: kamar (inherited)

→ Papiamentu: kamber

→ Peranakan Indonesian: kamer

→ Sranan Tongo: kamra

→ Aukan: kambaa

→ Caribbean Hindustani: kamrá

→ Saramaccan: kámba

→ Sinhalese: කාමරය (kāmaraya)

→? Trió: kama

From Middle Dutch cāmere (“room, barn, house”), from Old Dutch *kamara, from Latin camera (“room, vault”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”).

der

(with the user or owner specified) a bedroom

a room, physical chamber in a building
a bedroom

(Netherlands, with the definite article, often not specified) a living room

a room, physical chamber in a building
a living room

(Netherlands, historical, dated, with the definite article) a special, more luxurious living room (formerly) reserved for use on Sundays and holidays, found in old houses that were inhabited by relatively affluent people


closet

→ Czech: klozet

→ Polish: klozet

→ Spanish: clóset

→ Welsh: closet

From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.

cupboard

storage area set into a wall, used for storing food or dishware

cupboard

piece of furniture, used for storing food or dishware

A Closet full of shelves... it... should therefore be called a Cupboard rather than a Closet.

A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.

(now chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side room.

(US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.

wardrobe

piece of furniture, used for storing clothes

(obsolete) Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet.


closet

Unadapted borrowing from English closet.

2020 September 2, Luane Baptista, “Como montar um closet no apartamento: ideias e orientações”, in CRB Construtora, archived from the original on 2021-11-21:

dressing room, walk-in closet (US), walk-in wardrobe (UK) (a small room adjoining a domestic bedroom where people may dress or undress in privacy)


chambre

Antillean Creole: chanm

Haitian Creole: chanm

→ Norman: chambre, chàmbre (Guernsey)

→ Algerian Arabic: شمبرة (šambra)

→ Vietnamese: săm

Inherited from Old French chambre, cambre, from Latin cambra, Medieval spelling of Latin camera (“room”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover: a covered wagon, a covered boat, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of caméra, a borrowing.

der

a chamber in its various senses, including:


chambre

English: chamber

desctree

Scots: chaumer
→ Scottish Gaelic: seòmar

Yola: chaamer

Borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, camara, from Ancient Greek κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ (kamárā).


chambre

Borrowed from French chambre, from Old French chambre, from Latin camera.


cámara

From Old Galician-Portuguese camara (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “a vaulted chamber”).

der

chamber
namely, the main bedroom of a house

the room used for deliberation by a legislature

(firearms) the area holding the ammunition round

chamber
the area holding the ammunition round


cámara

Inherited from Old Spanish camara, borrowed from Vulgar Latin camara, variant of Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of cambra.


senate

→ Swahili: seneti

From Middle English senat, from Old French senat, from Latin senātus (“council of elders; a senate”), from senex (“old”). Doublet of Senedd.

In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.


dike

In 1574, the duke of Alva laid siege to Leiden to gain control of Holland's most beautiful and prosperous city. To relieve the siege, William of Orange and his followers opened the city's protective dikes to flush out—literally—the surrounding Spanish forces.

1994, John H. Makin, Norman J. Ornstein, Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What We Can Do about It, New York, NY: Times Books, →ISBN, page 52:

(chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.


dike

en-verb

dike (third-person singular simple present dikes, present participle diking, simple past and past participle diked)

dikes (present singular third-person)
diking (participle present)
diked (participle past)
diked (past)

Lakeside water-filtration plants, an 11,000-acre diked airport east of 55th Street, slash-and-bulldoze highway projects through Jackson and Lincoln parks—these and many another grandiose project leapt from the sketchbooks of city planners.

1996 September 27, Michael Miner, “WVON Won't Take the Bait”, in The Chicago Reader:

In 1983, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decreed that the Romanian Danube delta, one of Europe's largest wetlands, be diked for growing rice and maize.

2001 November 16, Karen F. Schmidt, “Ecology: A True-Blue Vision for the Danube”, in Science, volume 294, number 5546, →DOI, pages 1444–1447:

(chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.


dike

Of uncertain etymology, first attested in mid-19th century Virginia. Possibly a variant of deck and deck out or influenced by them.

(US dialect slang, obsolete) To be well dressed.


dike

Alternative form of deck: (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.

deck

(US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.


chamber

From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.

A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Which Had Very Nearly Been the Last of the Story”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 120:

(dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.

A room or set of rooms
Rooms in a lodging house.


gong

This grooming of the national mindset explains the retention of 92 "hereditary peers" in the House of Lords: individuals who are gifted a right to sit in the nation's upper chamber and facilitate laws for no other reason than that their ancestor was the illegitimate child of some prince, or willing to spaff a few quid on the title when David Lloyd Gorge was selling of gongs for bribes.

2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 114:

(British, slang) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor..


gong

English: gang (see there for further descendants); gong, goung (obsolete)

Scots: gang, gaung, ging

Northeastern: dyang, gyang

Inherited from Old English gang, from Proto-West Germanic *gang, form Proto-Germanic *gangaz. Compare gangen.

(chiefly Northern, uncommon) A walk; a journey, especially by foot.

(Northern, rare) A gait; the way one walks.

(poetic, rare) A band or company of armed men.


hol

holik (diminutive)
hol (nominative singular)
hole (nominative plural)
holu (genitive singular)
holi (genitive plural)
holów (genitive plural)
holowi (dative singular)
holom (dative plural)
hol (accusative singular)
hole (accusative plural)
holem (instrumental singular)
holami (instrumental plural)
holu (locative singular)
holach (locative plural)
holu (singular vocative)
hole (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English hall, from Proto-Germanic *hallō. Doublet of hala (“concourse, hall”).


hol

hol (nominative singular)
hole (nominative plural)
holu (genitive singular)
holi (genitive plural)
holowi (dative singular)
holom (dative plural)
hol (accusative singular)
hole (accusative plural)
holem (instrumental singular)
holami (instrumental plural)
holu (locative singular)
holach (locative plural)
holu (singular vocative)
hole (plural vocative)

Back-formation from holować, from German holen.


commons

(usually singular in construction) A public area, especially a dining hall, at a college or university; a similar shared spaced elsewhere.

At the same time, the fashion at Oxford of confining lunch to a "commons" of bread and butter and a glass of beer till the crew reaches Putney (when a little meat is allowed,) is unreasonable.

1875, Walter Bradford Woodgate, "Oars and Sculls," and How to Use Them (page 125)

(obsolete, UK, Oxford University) Food served at a fixed rate from the college buttery, distinguished from battels.


office

Tok Pisin: opis

→ Belarusian: о́фіс (ófis)

→ Bulgarian: о́фис (ófis)

→ Cebuano: opis

→ Chichewa: ofesi

→ Central Dusun: upis

→ Hindi: ऑफ़िस (ŏfis)

→ Iban: opis

→ Japanese: オフィス

→ Marshallese: wōpij

→ Malay: opis

→ Russian: о́фис (ófis)

→ Scottish Gaelic: oifis

→ Swahili: afisi

→ Tausug: upis

→ Ukrainian: о́фіс (ófis)

Microsoft Office
office (disambiguation)

From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
The use in reference to office software is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.

zyrë

room(s) or building used for non-manual work

The deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies[…]

1582, The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ: […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Rheims: Iohn Fogny, →OCLC, Iohn 12, marginalia, page 254:

To show their loue in this last office done
To a dead friend.

1618, S. Rowlands, Sacred Memorie, section 37:

I[…]will be first to render thee the decent offices due to the dead.

1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 318:

(religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:

A ceremonial duty or service
Last rites.

Giving the office—is when you suffer any person, who may stand behind your chair, to look over your hand.

1803, Sporting Magazine, number 21, page 327:

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Where Silas Linden Comes into His Own”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, [https://archive.org/details/landofmist0000doyl/page/" […] What is there for me in it?" "Not a shilling." "What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?"/mode/1up page " […] What is there for me in it?" "Not a shilling." "What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?"]:

(figuratively, slang) Inside information.

If they find the treason or felony... of the party accused... the king is thereupon, by virtue of this office found, intitled to have his forfeitures.

1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume III, page 259:

If the Crown claimed the land of an idiot, the person had first to be found an idiot by office.

1977, John McDonald Burke, Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law, volume I, page 280:

inquest of office
inquest of office#English

(UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office:


keck

head

keck m (genitive singular keck, plural keckyn)

keck (genitive singular)
keckyn (plural)

From Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”), from Proto-Celtic *kakkā, from Proto-Indo-European *kakka- (“to shit”).


alba

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Gedeo አልበ (alba).


ladies

As a lavatory for women, via misspelling of ladies'. Compare gents.

Pardon me, I need to visit the ladies.

(British, euphemistic) A ladies' room: a lavatory intended for use by women.


wardrobe

From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French. Doublet of garderobe.

(obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.


gents

A clipped form of gentlemen. As a room, via misspelling of gents', a clipped form of gentlemen's room.

Where is the gents? I need a slash.

A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".

1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, volume 6, page 27:

London's first 'gents' public toilets were opened in Fleet Street in 1851, followed in 1852 by a 'ladies' toilet at 51 Bedford Street, Strand.

2000, Munroe Blair, Ceramic Water Closets, page 15:

One unidentified man spoke of how he was approached to "go to the Gents" with an MP at an event for young political activists while another man described how an MP invited his entire office staff to a gay bar.

2014 April 11, Charlotte Meredith, “The Palace of Sexminster”, in Huffington Post: United Kingdom:

(chiefly UK, informal euphemistic) A men's room: a lavatory intended for use by men.


foreign

en-adj

foreign (comparative more foreign, superlative most foreign)

more foreign (comparative)
most foreign (superlative)

domestic

antonym(s) of “from a different country”

From Middle English foreyn, forein, from Old French forain, from Vulgar Latin *forānus (“outsider, outlander”), from Latin forās (“outside, outdoors”) or forīs (“outside, outdoors”).
Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ (“foreign”) and now-dialectal English fremd, from Old English fremde (“strange, foreign”).
The silent -g- added perhaps by analogy with reign (compare also sovereign which was similarly altered).

der

(US, state law) From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.


cack

en-noun

cack (countable and uncountable, plural cacks)

From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation.
Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cacō (“defecate”) (see there for more); compare also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”).

cog

Audio (AU)

I dive back in along the cobbles, step over the cack, wall an fence closin me down, barbed wire left, razor wire right, follow by puttied-in broken glass, spike rails an stuck-on warnings about dogs.

" And have bird cack on their heads , " Jacques agreed cheerfully, to Ash's relief.


sepulchre

From Middle English sepulcre and Old French sepulcre, from Latin sepulcrum (“grave, burial place”).

By Mahomet, my Kinſmans ſepulcher,
And by the holy Alcaron I ſweare, […]

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 269:

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

1611, King James Version, Matthew 23:27:

[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.

1810, J[ohn] Stagg, “Arthur’s Cave. A Legendary Tale.”, in The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. […], London: Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, […], for the author, and sold by J. Blacklock, […], →OCLC, page 105:

Nor was it the human form alone which we had placed in this eternal sepulchre, whose obseques we now celebrated.

1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

The vast tackles have now done their duty. The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 69, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

Plato, too, it is well known, considered the body as the sepulchre of the soul, and in the Cratylus concurs with the doctrine of Orpheus, that the soul is punished through its union with body.

1891, Thomas Taylor, The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, Section 1:

The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend. First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.

1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Part II, Chapter 14:


pokoj

pokoj (nominative singular)
pokoje (nominative plural)
pokoje (genitive singular)
pokojů (genitive plural)
pokoji (dative singular)
pokojům (dative plural)
pokoj (accusative singular)
pokoje (accusative plural)
pokoji (singular vocative)
pokoje (plural vocative)
pokoji (locative singular)
pokojích (locative plural)
pokojem (instrumental singular)
pokoji (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech pokoj, from Proto-Slavic *pokojь.

čistý pokoj

prostorný pokoj

hotelový pokoj

jediný pokoj

Pronajala si pokoj.

Budu ten pokoj malovat.