dunnekin
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom the addition of kin or ken, a pejorative form of house, to some form of danna, an obsolete slang for shit.
Noun
editdunnekin (plural dunnekins)
- (archaic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Usage notes
editOriginally English cant or dialect but now more common in Scottish, Australian, and New Zealand English.
Synonyms
edit- dunny; see also Thesaurus:outhouse
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- "Danna" in James Camden Hotten's Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day (1859).
- "Dunegan" in Francis Grose's A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811).
- "dunny, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1972), Oxford: Oxford University Press.