toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔɪ.lət/
ipa: /ˈtɔɪ.lɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪlɪt
Forms: form: toilets
form: toilette
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Sorry, I was in the toilet.
text: He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end.
ref: 2002, Digby Tantam, Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework, page 122:
text: He wet his thumb with saliva pressing on the tongue, ran it up and down faster over the letter 'I' of 'TOILET', the 'LADIES TOILET' was transformed into 'LADIES TO LET' in no time.
ref: 2014, C.S. Walter, Abandoned Bridges, pp. 105 f.:
glosses: A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
glosses: A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower.
synonyms: half bath
half bathroom
cloakroom
examples: text: My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Look around you. It's a toilet.
ref: 1982, The Mosquito Coast:
text: Mr. Gaunt was urbane and smiling again, not a hair out of place. "Do you like this little town? Do you love it? […]" / […] "I hate this fucking toilet," he said to Leland Gaunt.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: A very shabby or dirty place.
glosses: A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.
examples: text: And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d, / Each silver vase in mystic order laid.
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto I, lines 121-126:
glosses: The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.
examples: text: Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […].
ref: 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford, published 2009, page 118:
text: Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet.
ref: 1913, Rabindranath Tagore, Come as you are..., Poetry Foundation, page 85:
text: Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets, smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111:
text: Here, at night, a lonely but brilliantly neon-illuminated figure, I performed my toilet, watched incuriously by the Burmese seated at the tables of the tea-shops below.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth, Chapter 8:
glosses: Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 25:
text: "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."
ref: 1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge:
glosses: One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
glosses: A dressing room.
synonyms: word: bedpan
word: can
word: chamber
word: chamber pot
word: chemical toilet
word: commode
word: Cousin John
word: crapper
word: gazunder
word: guzunder
word: honey bucket
word: honeypot
word: Jerry
word: jerry
word: john
word: johnny
word: jordan
word: latrine
word: mingo
word: necessary stool
word: pan
word: pee pot
word: pisspot
word: piss pot
word: po
word: pot
word: potty
word: potty-chair
word: shitbucket
word: shitcan
word: shitpot
word: slop bucket
word: stool
word: stool of easement
word: throne
word: thunder mug
word: toilet
word: urinal
glosses: A chamber pot.
examples: text: I’m not interested in toilets and I don’t think a gf [Girlfriend] is needed to live a fulfilling life.
ref: 2021, anonymous, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 72
text: A user, @blacklister, concludes that “toilets are as vacuous as their value besides pleasing men”, with a remark on how women should be handed out by the state to every man to minimise inceldom.
ref: 2022, Elina Maaranen, "How incel users' communication discriminate women", thesis submitted to Karlstad University, page 24
text: I can’t bare listening to a toilet talk. I don’t wanna listen to toilet songs,or watch them in movies. They have nothing to offer other than sexuality
ref: 2023, "TheShingTard", quoted in Emma Catherine Leger, "'Misogyny is self defense': A critical analysis of Incel discourse and belief on Incels.is", thesis submitted to Carleton University, page 104
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: A woman.
Synonyms: word: big white telephone
word: bog
word: can
word: commode
word: crapper
word: crapper trapper
word: donniker
word: dunny
word: head
topics: naval
navy
military
war
government
politics
word: highway to hell
word: jacks
word: jakes
word: john
word: khazi
word: latrine
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: lav
word: pisser
word: pooper
word: porcelain god
word: porcelain goddess
word: pot
word: potty
word: privy
word: Quincy
word: shitcan
word: shitpot
word: shitter
word: stool
word: throne
word: toilet
word: toot
Hyponyms: word: boy toilet
word: chemical toilet
word: House of Lords
word: urinal
word: urinary
Meronyms: word: bowl
word: lid
word: pan
word: seat
word: seat of ease
word: tank
word: toilet bowl
word: toilet seat
Derived terms: aural toilet
Detoilet
down the toilet
ear toilet
flushing toilet
flying toilet
go down the toilet
go toilet
go to the toilet
in the toilet
I want to go to the toilet
lung toilet
make one's toilet
marine toilet
pay toilet
pig toilet
pit toilet
Pittsburgh toilet
public toilet
pulmonary toilet
sitting toilet
the toilet is clogged
toilet baby
toilet bag
toilet basket
toilet block
toilet book
toilet bowl
toilet box
toilet break
toilet brush
toilet claw
toilet cloth
toilet club
toilet cover
toilet glass
toilet humor
toilet humour
toilet jack
toilet of the mouth
toilet-paper
toilet paper
TP
toilet powder
toilet roll
toilet-roll cosy
toilet roll cosy
toilet room
toilet-room
toiletry
toilet seat
toilet service
toilet set
toilet slipper
toilet stool
toilet table
toilet-table
toilet tank
toilet teaching
toilet tent
toilet tissue
toilet-train
toilet-trained
toilet trained
toilet training
toilet tube
toilet vinegar
toilet wand
toilet water
toilet wine
Turkey toilet sponge
Turkish toilet
use the toilet
vault toilet
Western-style toilet
where is the toilet
Related terms: word: gents
word: ladies
word: lavatory
word: loo
word: thunderbox
word: washroom
word: bog roll
word: toilet paper
word: toilet roll
word: toilet slipper
word: shit ribbon
word: chamber pot
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class II § 191. Receptacle