Thesaurus:toilet

Thesaurus

toilet

English

Noun

Sense: a plumbing fixture for the disposal of human waste

Synonyms

• big white telephone (slang)
• bog (UK, slang)
• can (slang)
• commode
• crapper (coarse slang)
• crapper trapper (coarse slang, rare)
• devil's back roads (slang, rare)
• dunny (AU&NZ, slang)
• head    [⇒ thesaurus] (naval jargon)
• highway to hell (slang, rare)
• jacks (Irish, slang)
• jakes (Irish, slang)
• john (US, slang)
• khazi
• latrine (military jargon)
• lav (UK, slang)
• pisser (coarse slang)
• pooper (slang)
• porcelain god (slang)
• porcelain goddess (slang)
• pot
• potty (childish)
• privy
• Quincy (US slang, obsolete)
• shitcan (coarse slang)
• shitpot (coarse slang)
• shitter (coarse slang)
• stool
• throne (euphemism)
• toilet
• toot (AU)

Metonyms

• gents
• ladies
• lavatory
• loo (UK, slang)
• thunderbox
• washroom (euphemism)

Hyponyms

• boy toilet
• chemical toilet
• House of Lords (uncommon Scottish slang)
• urinal
• urinary (archaic)

Meronyms

• bowl
• lid
• pan
• seat
• seat of ease (obsolete, euphemism)
• tank
• toilet bowl
• toilet seat

Holonyms

• bathroom    [⇒ thesaurus]
• outhouse    [⇒ thesaurus]

Related terms

• bog roll (UK, slang)
• toilet paper
• toilet roll
• toilet slipper
• shit ribbon

See also

• Thesaurus:chamber pot
• Thesaurus:outhouse
• Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class II § 191. Receptacle

Further reading

• “toilet” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.