Appendix:Australian English terms pertaining to the toilet, excrement, urine or vomit
Toilet terms
edit- crapper or crappa – a toilet Originating from American Soldiers who visited England who saw manholes near the toilets marked with Thos Crapper and Sons Trademark
- dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
- shit-house – originally a term for a toilet, but now a generic descriptor meaning something that is badly done or made, or bad in general, as in "The Eagles played shithouse last weekend." Rarely, abbreviated to shouse.
- shitter or shitta - a toilet, a lavatory
- thunderbox – a toilet
- trough lolly - the solid piece of perfumed disinfectant in a men's urinal
Excrement
edit- arse piss - Diarrhea
- Tap Arse - Diarrhea
- Bondi cigar or brown-eyed mullet - a turd in the sea (where you're swimming),
- goonah – fæces; an Aboriginal word; used in general English in parts of Australia with a large Aboriginal population, including the Northern Territory (universally used), and in sections in other states
- skid – "skid mark" a stain in a pair of underpants that bears a resemblance to a rubber skid mark on the road from a car tyre
- taking a dump – defecating
Urine
edit- take a leak - urinate
- point percy at the porcelain - urinating in a modern toilet
- shake hands with the wife's best friend - urinate
- splash me boots - urinate
- take a slash - urinate
Vomit
edit- spew
- chunder
- curbside quiche
- liquid laugh
- munt - to vomit
- technicolour yawn
- yak
See also
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