SLANG WORDS FOR "TOILET"

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lav / lavvy: shortened form of lavatory. "Just going to the lavvy luvvy!"

loo: from the French bordalou, a ladies portable toilet that looked a bit like a gravy-boat and was carried inside a muff (a big, fury, double-glove for keeping the hands warm).

karsy: from the Italian casa (house). Don't say this in front of your English host-family.

thunder-box: British Indian army term. Self explanatory.

colfabias: this is actually fake Latin. Used by students at Trinity College, University of Dublin.

fourth: used at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. In the 19th century the college lavatories were in the 4th court, so "gone 4" or "taking a fourth" meant going to the toilet.

Jerry: Jericho was (still is, actually) the rough area of Oxford. So "going for a Jerry" became a slang expression for urinating.

forakers: from the Latin forica meaning privy.

little boy's room: euphemism for the chaps' loo.

little girl's room: euphemism for the ladies' loo.

po: from the French pot de chambre (chamber-pot), kept under the bed for night-soil.

throne room: obvious euphemism.

the bogs: British schoolboy term for toilet.

"going up the end of the garden": a reference to when British homes had outside lavatories, usually at the end of the garden.

on the pan: to be sitting on the lavatory.

to take a leak: used in the United States mainly, to urinate.

to wizz: to urinate.