Appendix:Australian English terms pertaining to the toilet, excrement, urine or vomit - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

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  • 1 Toilet terms
  • 2 Excrement
  • 3 Urine
  • 4 Vomit
  • 5 See also

Toilet terms[edit]

  • crapper or crappa – a toilet Originating from American Soldiers who visited England who saw manholes near the toilets marked with Thos Crapper and Sons Trademark
  • dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
  • sh*t-house – originally a term for a toilet, but now a generic descriptor meaning something that is badly done or made, or bad in general, as in "The Eagles played sh*thouse last weekend." Rarely, abbreviated to shouse.
  • sh*tter or sh*tta - a toilet, a lavatory
  • thunderbox – a toilet
  • trough lolly - the solid piece of perfumed disinfectant in a men's urinal

Excrement[edit]

  • arse piss - Diarrhea
  • Tap Arse - Diarrhea
  • Bondi cigar or brown-eyed mullet - a turd in the sea (where you're swimming),
  • goonah – fæces; an Aboriginal word; used in general English in parts of Australia with a large Aboriginal population, including the Northern Territory (universally used), and in sections in other states
  • skid – "skid mark" a stain in a pair of underpants that bears a resemblance to a rubber skid mark on the road from a car tyre
  • taking a dump – defecating

Urine[edit]

  • take a leak - urinate
  • point percy at the porcelain - urinating in a modern toilet
  • shake hands with the wife's best friend - urinate
  • splash me boots - urinate
  • take a slash - urinate

Vomit[edit]

  • spew
  • chunder
  • curbside quiche
  • liquid laugh
  • munt - to vomit
  • technicolour yawn
  • yak

See also[edit]

Wikipedia

Appendix:Australian English terms pertaining to the toilet, excrement, urine or vomit - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

FAQs

What is the Australian slang for vomit? ›

Chunder is Australian slang for vomit.

What do they call poop in Australia? ›

A bog is a sh*t, or poop as you would say in America. A ute is a pick-up truck.

What is the slang word for toilet in Australia? ›

Loo or dunny - Thesea are slang term for toilet. If you are a guest in someone's house for the first time, it is usually polite to ask permission to use his or her toilet. 'May I use your toilet please?'

What is the Australian slang for outhouse? ›

The little sheds in each back yard are outhouses. "Dunny" or "dunny can" are Australian words for a toilet, particularly an outhouse.

What do Australians call diarrhea? ›

Jimmy Britts - "sh*ts", either diarrhoea or annoyance (also "Jimmy Smits" a US actor).

What is the slang word for toilet? ›

pisser (coarse slang) pooper (slang) porcelain god (slang) porcelain goddess (slang) pot.

What is a shagger in Australia? ›

Wiktionary. (UK, Australia, colloquial, slang) A popular person; also used as an epithet.

How do aussies say urine? ›

2 syllables: "YOOR" + "in"

What is the Australian slang for girl? ›

Though it is not as common as it once was, “sheila” is the Australian slang for girl or woman. It originally came from the Irish name Síle, which was exclusively used with women. Nowadays, “sheila” is considered one of the milder Australian slang insults, so it's best not to use it.

What is the fancy British word for toilet? ›

Synonyms of 'toilet' in British English
  • lavatory. a public lavatory.
  • bathroom. She had gone to use the bathroom.
  • loo (British, informal)
  • bog (slang) I'm reading it on the bog.
  • gents or ladies.
  • can (US, Canadian, slang)
  • john (slang, mainly US, Canadian)
  • head(s) (nautical, slang)

What is the Southern slang for toilet? ›

Powder room, commode

A less genteel Southern-ism for the bathroom is “commode.” While more widely it's used to refer to a ship's bathroom, in the South, it's just any toilet, land-bound or not.

Is Toot a slang word for toilet in Australia? ›

slang for lavatory. A toilet. Also known as a 'dunny', a 'shouse', a ' toot '. 'Must go to the toot .

What do aussies call alcohol? ›

Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol.

What do Australians call hobos? ›

Dero : tramp, hobo, homeless person (from “derelict”)

How do Australians say no? ›

While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.

What is the slang word for vomiting? ›

barf (US, slang), chunder (slang, Australian), upchuck (US, slang), do a technicolour yawn (slang), toss your cookies (US, slang)

What is the street term for vomit? ›

Throw up is informal, but there are many even more informal slang terms, many of which can also be used as both a verb and a noun, including puke, barf, hurl, spew, ralph, upchuck, and chunder.

What is the British slang for vomit? ›

Chunder

Not a wonderfully melodic word, 'chunder' is part and parcel of British slang terms. Meaning 'to vomit' or 'to be sick', 'chunder' is almost always used in correlation with drunken nights, or being hugely ill and sick. For example, 'I ate a bad pizza last night after too many drinks and chundered in the street.

What is Irish slang for puke? ›

'Gawking' is Cork slang for 'vomiting'.

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