"Cousin John" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "John",
      "John#English"
    ],
    [
      "outhouse",
      "outhouse"
    ],
    [
      "lavatory",
      "lavatory"
    ],
    [
      "chamber pot",
      "chamber pot"
    ],
    [
      "toilet",
      "toilet"
    ],
    [
      "powdering one's nose",
      "powder one's nose"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From John (“outhouse; lavatory; chamber pot; toilet”). Possibly derived from a \"euphemistic phrase of excuse\" (e.g., \"visiting my cousin John\" or \"going to cousin John's house\"), similar to modern use of \"powdering one's nose\", but this is unattested.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cuz john",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuzjohn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Cuz-John",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "Cousin John"
      },
      "expansion": "Cousin John (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Buildings",
          "orig": "en:Buildings",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rooms",
          "orig": "en:Rooms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Toilet (room)",
          "orig": "en:Toilet (room)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1735, Richard Waldron, \"A Freshman Guide\", in 1953, William Bentinck-Smith, The Harvard Book, p. 162",
          "text": "20. No freshman shall mingo against the College wall or go into the fellows' cuzjohn."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1741, “The Customs of Harvard College”, in A Collection of College Words and Customs, John Bartlett, published 1851, page 319:",
          "text": "18. No Freshman shall call or throw any thing across the College yard, nor go into the Fellow's Cuz-John.*",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, “Public Privies to Private Baths”, in The Guide to United States Popular Culture, page 645:",
          "text": "American males often used British terms such as Cousin John or Jake to refer to a privy or a chamber pot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place or device for urination and defecation: an outhouse or chamber pot."
      ],
      "id": "en-Cousin_John-en-noun-BO62GNOu",
      "links": [
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ],
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "urination",
          "urination"
        ],
        [
          "defecation",
          "defecation"
        ],
        [
          "outhouse",
          "outhouse"
        ],
        [
          "chamber pot",
          "chamber pot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, slang, obsolete) A place or device for urination and defecation: an outhouse or chamber pot."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "john"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Irish"
          ],
          "word": "jakes"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "obsolete",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cousin John"
}

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "John",
      "John#English"
    ],
    [
      "outhouse",
      "outhouse"
    ],
    [
      "lavatory",
      "lavatory"
    ],
    [
      "chamber pot",
      "chamber pot"
    ],
    [
      "toilet",
      "toilet"
    ],
    [
      "powdering one's nose",
      "powder one's nose"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From John (“outhouse; lavatory; chamber pot; toilet”). Possibly derived from a \"euphemistic phrase of excuse\" (e.g., \"visiting my cousin John\" or \"going to cousin John's house\"), similar to modern use of \"powdering one's nose\", but this is unattested.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cuz john",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuzjohn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Cuz-John",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "Cousin John (uncountable)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Buildings",
        "en:Rooms",
        "en:Toilet (room)"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1735, Richard Waldron, \"A Freshman Guide\", in 1953, William Bentinck-Smith, The Harvard Book, p. 162",
          "text": "20. No freshman shall mingo against the College wall or go into the fellows' cuzjohn."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1741, “The Customs of Harvard College”, in A Collection of College Words and Customs, John Bartlett, published 1851, page 319:",
          "text": "18. No Freshman shall call or throw any thing across the College yard, nor go into the Fellow's Cuz-John.*",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, “Public Privies to Private Baths”, in The Guide to United States Popular Culture, page 645:",
          "text": "American males often used British terms such as Cousin John or Jake to refer to a privy or a chamber pot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place or device for urination and defecation: an outhouse or chamber pot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ],
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "urination",
          "urination"
        ],
        [
          "defecation",
          "defecation"
        ],
        [
          "outhouse",
          "outhouse"
        ],
        [
          "chamber pot",
          "chamber pot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, slang, obsolete) A place or device for urination and defecation: an outhouse or chamber pot."
      ],
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        "US",
        "obsolete",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "john"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Irish"
      ],
      "word": "jakes"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Cousin John"
}