The most common British slang for toilet is "loo," a friendly, informal term used everywhere, but other popular slang terms include the cruder "bog" (from boghouse) and the less common "khazi". For more formal or public settings, Brits might say "the facilities," "lavatory," or "Gents/Ladies," while "loo" is generally considered polite enough for most situations.
Loo is an informal yet polite British term for toilet.
It's a harsh word that was adapted from the French toilette which means your appearance, hence toiletries bag. Lavatory or loo is much more acceptable.
The most common Australian slang for toilet is dunny, especially for outdoor or rustic toilets, while loo is used more generally for indoor ones, similar to British English; other terms include the slightly dated thunderbox, or simply asking for the "bathroom" or "lavatory" (lav).
Kharsie (carsey) is a London word for toilet, that also appears in Polari. Originally a Cockney spelling, it's thought to derived from the Italian “casa” meaning “house”. It's also used in Liverpool.
A rather more vulgar word for toilet is 'crapper'. First appearing in 1932, crapper became a popular alternative word for toilet thanks to the Thomas Crapper & Co Ltd company that manufactured toilets.
Woop Woop is used to refer to a place in the middle of nowhere. People use it to signify that a location is far away, unfamiliar to them, and difficult to get to.
In America, you'll often hear the toilet referred to as the 'restroom'. This alternative word for toilet first gained popular usage in the early twentieth century.
In the US fanny is a commonly used word for backside; in Australia the equivalent word is bum, as in "he kicked him in the bum". Fanny is not an acceptable word in Australia or New Zealand - it refers to the same general region of the female body, at the top end of the legs, but at the front, not the back!
In many Amish homes, rags are a common toilet paper alternative. These rags are typically old clothes that have been worn out. After simple processing, they become practical cleaning tools. After use, they are washed clean and can be reused multiple times.
In British English, "toilet" is the most common term, also used are "WC", an abbreviation for water closet, "lavatory", or "loo". Other terms are also used, some as part of a regional dialect.
Vocabulary is as important as accent. Since the writer Nancy Mitford codified the U and non-U (upper class and non-upper class) terms in the 1950s, it has been taken as fact that upper classes use loos, sofas and napkins while their social inferiors prefer toilets, settees and serviettes.
In Australian English the word dunny is used informally for toilet. It derives from the British dialect word dunnekin meaning 'privy' (from dung 'excrement' and ken 'house'). It was originally used in Australian English, from the 1930s, to refer to an unsewered outside toilet.
The bundle, or roll of toilet paper, is specifically known as a toilet roll, loo roll, or bog roll (in Britain).
The most common Australian slang for toilet is dunny, especially for outdoor or rustic toilets, while loo is used more generally for indoor ones, similar to British English; other terms include the slightly dated thunderbox, or simply asking for the "bathroom" or "lavatory" (lav).
"Skibidi" is a nonsensical slang term from the viral YouTube series Skibidi Toilet, meaning it can signify something cool, bad, weird, or just be used as random gibberish, often to express absurdity or as a conversational filler, especially among Gen Alpha. Its meaning is highly contextual, derived from the absurdist videos featuring singing heads emerging from toilets in a war against electronic-headed humans.
In general London and cockney slang
Loo – the classic British way to say “toilet”.
"Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy, Oi, Oi, Oi!" is a popular Australian sports chant, a variation of the British "Oggy, Oggy, Oggy" cheer, used to express national pride and support for Australian teams, with "Ozzy" being slang for "Australian" and "Oi, Oi, Oi" a general interjection for enthusiasm or attention, much like "USA!". The chant involves one group shouting "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!" and the crowd responding "Oi, Oi, Oi!".
"Hoo-ha" (or hoo-hah) slang means a noisy fuss, commotion, or excitement, often over something trivial, but it can also euphemistically refer to female genitalia. It's an informal term for a "brouhaha," "hullabaloo," or general to-do, signifying uproar or fuss, but sometimes used to describe a state of arousal or, less commonly, male anatomy, though its primary use is for commotion or female anatomy.
The birds have also come to be regarded as a problem species in Victoria as a result of their scavenging activities, scattering rubbish from tips and bins in the process, and earning the widespread nickname "bin chicken". They are even known to snatch sandwiches from picnickers.
The Birth Of The Please Don't Do Coke In The Bathroom Sign
2014 saw former knitting store manager, Jessica Kleinmann, open Lyman's Tavern in Washington DC's Columbia Heights. She 'wanted something cute' to hang in its bathroom. And what could be cuter than not doing cocaine?
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Head (ship's toilet) The use of the term "head" to refer to a ship's toilet dates to at least as early as 1708, when Woodes Rogers (English privateer and Governor of the Bahamas) used the word in his book, A Cruising Voyage Around the World.