Water closet and W.C. were common euphemisms then, coming after crapper became tainted. Toilette was a fancy word for a wash-up; one made one's toilette. Toilet, bathroom, and bowl are later euphemisms, after W.C. was retired.
Toileting. Though houses in the 1920s had lavatories, chamber pots in the bedrooms were still often preferred as the commode of choice. It was the job of the chambermaid to collect the pots a few times throughout the day and dispose of the contents.
Lavatory. Another word with a Latin root, lavatory comes from 'lavare'. During the Medieval period it evolved into 'lavatorium' (which means washbasin), before arriving at the lavatory at some point in the 14th century.
In the 1880s, water closets featured a high 10-gallon tank suspended above the toilet and operated by a pull chain. In the 1920s, the tank type toilet was introduced, reducing a flush to five to seven gallons. Sears Roebuck offered a basic “modern water closet” for $11.95.
The WC - Still in use today, the abbreviation WC stems from the term “water closet” which is what we used to call toilets in the Victorian era.
Loo. Toilet. An outdoor toilet is a Dunny and an indoor toliet is called a loo. So you might say, "You can use the dunny out the back on the loo in the front." And that's how you say "toilet" in Australian.
Dunny can now be used for any toilet. The word comes from British dialect dunnekin meaning an 'earth closet, (outside) privy' from dung + ken 'house'. First recorded in the 1930s but dunnekin is attested in Australian sources from the 1840s.
Now the time had begun where the bathroom was seen as more than simply a room of function. Working class houses with bathrooms were first built around 1900, and in the 1920's council houses were built with bathrooms.
Though toilets (aka water-closets) were invented earlier, dedicated rooms for personal hygiene and grooming were almost unheard of except for the very wealthy. In 1900, a bowl, pitcher, and chamber pot were standard issue in most bedrooms and kept in a small cabinet called a commode.
A bathroom of 1923 probably looked very similar to a bathroom of 1907: utilitarian and sanitary with white paint and tile, a wall-hung or pedestal sink and clawfoot tub, nickel finishes and exposed plumbing.
commode. crapper (coarse slang) crapper trapper (coarse slang, rare) devil's back roads (slang, rare) dunny (AU&NZ, slang)
Biffy. In the U.S., biffy is a slang term for the toilet dating to the 1940s.
Carsey/ Khazi
(Noun) Originating from the Cockney region its usage is much more common with people in Liverpool. It comes from the Italian term casa meaning “house.” This slang refers to the lavatory or toilet itself. Example: Never use a public carsey.
First Design
Named the Ajax, Harington described the device in a satirical pamphlet titled “A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, Called the Metamorphosis of Ajax,” which contained insulting allegories to Earl of Leicester, a close friend of his godmother Queen Elizabeth I.
Some think it's a variation of “privy,” while others point to the word “bivouac” as its likely origin. Still others think it may have come from “BFI,” the initials of portable toilet company Browning-Ferris Industries.
Synonyms of women's restroom (noun bathroom for women)
girls' room. ladies' room. little girls' room. powder room.
The head (pl. heads) is a ship's toilet. The name derives from sailing ships in which the toilet area for the regular sailors was placed at the head or bow of the ship.
Leaves, sticks, moss, sand and water were common choices, depending on early humans' environment. Once we developed agriculture, we had options like hay and corn husks. People who lived on islands or on the coast used shells and a scraping technique.
A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility that is used as a toilet within a sanitation system. For example, it can be a communal trench in the earth in a camp to be used as emergency sanitation, a hole in the ground (pit latrine), or more advanced designs, including pour-flush systems.
The 1920's saw the start of showers being used in homes throughout the USA, however, some rural homes didn't have indoor running water until the 1950/1960's.
This was then adapted further in 1850 after the Greek and Roman method of reliable plumbing was rediscovered, meaning that people no longer had to reuse the same old water. In the 1920s, the US began pushing the shower out to the wider public, as opposed to just the wealthy.
Eventually, indoor plumbing, septic systems, and municipal sewage systems would replace the outhouse, but not completely.
In the United States, you can expect the use of porta-potty and porta-John. Locally, Aussies often use Dunny or, if you're in rural areas, maybe even Thunderbox.
For those trivia buffs amongst you - here's a piece of toilet trivia - The flusihng toilet was invented by Sir Thomas Crapper (Aussie's also call the toilet the crapper).
Other definitions for toot (3 of 4)
nounAustralian Informal. lavatory; toilet.