toilet
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toilet
- /ˈtɔɪ.lət/
- /ˈtɔɪ.lɪt/
Rhymes with -ɔɪlɪt
Where it comes from
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.
noun toilets · toilette
- A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet. Sorry, I was in the toilet.
- A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower.
- A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system. My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.
- A very shabby or dirty place. Look around you. It's a toilet.
- A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.
- The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table. And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d, / Each silver vase in mystic order laid.
- Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair. Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […].
- One's style of dressing: dress, outfit. It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilette, and never see the great soul in a man's face.
- A dressing room.
- A chamber pot.
- A woman. I’m not interested in toilets and I don’t think a gf [Girlfriend] is needed to live a fulfilling life.
Similar: big white telephone, bog, can, commode, crapper, crapper trapper, donniker, dunny, head, highway to hell, jacks, jakes
verb toilets · toileting · toiletting · toileted · toiletted
- To dress and groom oneself.
- To use (urinate or defecate in) a toilet. We use imitation. We take a doll, a doll that can wet, and make sure it has pants on it. We use the principle that a very effective way of learning is by teaching. Se we have him teach the doll how to toilet properly.
- To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.
