The John. Sir John Harrington was the inventor of the forerunner of the first flushing toilet (known as the Ajax), so it's only fitting that his first name should have become synonymous with the toilet.
A john is a toilet or bathroom. [US, informal] I've got to go to the john.
The bathroom expression “John” comes from a man by the name of Sir John Harrington. Harrington lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
These were popular names for men during the Medieval period. Over time, people began calling cramped bathroom areas inside homes or buildings either a Jack or Jake. In fact, Sir John Harrington named his flushing toilet concept Ajax because it was a new take on a Jack or Jake!
Despite its British popularity for a slightly less crude way to call the toilet, the word “loo” is actually derived from the French phrase 'guardez l'eau', meaning 'watch out for the water”.
Khazi. A somewhat outdated phrase, khazi derives from the Cockney word “carsey”, meaning toilet.
THE LOO. The 'loo' is very common in the UK & Ireland, and is a safe and polite way to say 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.
Because it had water, it became known as the water closet. Somehow the name stuck, and plumbers continue to refer to a toilet as a water closet. That's what the “WC” imprinted on most toilets stands for.
'Lavatory' is a good option for people looking for a very formal word to use in very formal occasions.
john (plural johns) (slang) A prostitute's client. quotations ▼synonym ▲ Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute's client. (slang, US) A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.
The Privy. A privy was basically an unlined cesspool in the ground with a wooden hut built over it. A wooden shelf stretched across, with a nice, bottom sized hole in the middle. You sat here and did your business, with your waste dropping down into the hole.
1740-60. At home, matters were a little more comfortable. Wealthier households might have an earth closet, a kind of dry toilet which ensured that waste was buried in soil, and virtually every dwelling had at least one chamber pot or a bourdaloue, which would be emptied into a cesspit (by a servant, if you were lucky).
In the medieval period luxury castles were built with indoor toilets known as 'garderobes', and the waste dropped into a pit below.
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.
Aye aye – Confirmation that an order is understood. Blimey: An expression of disbelief or disappointment. Booty – The treasures and other valuables plundered from the victim ships. Davy Jones's Locker – How pirates reference burials at sea, a watery grave yard.
A urinal (US: /ˈjʊərənəl/, UK: /jʊəˈraɪnəl/) is a sanitary plumbing fixture for urination only. Urinals are often provided in public toilets for male users in Western countries (less so in Muslim countries).
In the UK we just say... "Just popping to the loo" or "Need the loo, be right back". Or "Excuse me, I just need to go to the toilet". But very rarely "Gonna point Percy at the porcelain". Some people say "Need a wee" or "Need a pee", "Just going for a pee/wee", or "Jimmy riddle" = Piddle.
Restrooms (Toilets) in the USA. Toilets are called restrooms in the USA. A restroom is not somewhere you rest or sleep. Public restrooms are available throughout the United States.
The term "raspberry" derives from the Cockney rhyming slang "raspberry tart" for "fart" (that is, "blowing a fart").
To run... Quack - is slang for a doctor that is suspected of not have the correct qualifications Queen mum - is Cockney rhyming slang for the backside (bum). Queen of the south - is Cockney rhyming slang for mouth.
'Piddle' in cockney rhyming slang, meaning to urinate.
The dunny was originally any outside toilet. In cities and towns the pan-type dunny was emptied by the dunny man, who came round regularly with his dunny cart. 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'.