toilet
Plural: toilets
Noun
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- "pensions are in the toilet"
- the act of dressing and preparing yourself
- "he made his morning toilet and went to breakfast"
- A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
- 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.
- 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.
- A very shabby or dirty place.
- A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.
- The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.
- Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.
- One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
- A dressing room.
- A chamber pot.
- A woman.
Verb
Verb Forms: toileted, toileting, toilets
- To dress and groom oneself; to perform one's ablutions.
- To dress and groom oneself.
- To use (urinate or defecate in) a toilet.
- To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.
Examples
- My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.
- Some players like to toilet their words carefully, ensuring perfect placement and high scores.
- Sorry, I was in the toilet.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
bathroom, can, commode, crapper, gutter, john, lav, lavatory, pot, potty, privy, sewer, stool, throne, toilette, Cousin John, Jerry, Quincy, bedpan, big white telephone, bog, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, cloakroom, crapper trapper, donniker, dunny, gazunder, guzunder, half bath, half bathroom, head, highway to hell, honey bucket, honeypot, jacks, jakes, jerry, johnny, jordan, khazi, latrine, mingo, necessary stool, pan, pee pot, piss pot, pisser, pisspot, po, pooper, porcelain god, porcelain goddess, potty-chair, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, shitter, slop bucket, stool of easement, thunder mug, toilet, toot, urinal
Scrabble Score: 6
toilet: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtoilet: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
toilet: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary