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noun
- 1. a room, building, or cubicle containing a toilet or toilets: "he locked himself in the downstairs lavatory"
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Jul 4, 2015 · By the way, "lavatory" and "toilet" are NOT synonymous in AmE. The former means the room, and the latter means the fixture. In public venues such as schools or stadia, the room is sometimes called a lavatory, but in restaurants and other establishments it is usually called the restroom (a euphemism, clearly).
I'd just like to agree with 2revs. For my sins, I went to quite a posh private school, and saying toilet was a definite no-no. Lavatory was the standard word, but at school most people said bog. So I was happy when loo left its original 'U' niche, and became fairly classless.
Aug 8, 2011 · In most places in the US, although people know what a "lavatory" is, that term sounds very technical and is usually reserved for airplanes. Another generic euphemism that is common in the US is "washroom". "Washroom" may be the most widespread euphemism that does not have the possibly misleading connotations that "bathroom" and "restroom" have.
Feb 21, 2014 · 'Lavatory' is the 'matter of fact' term that sanitary engineers would us if planning some of the public variety - 'public lavatories'. Aircraft toilets are often called 'lavatories'. I'm not sure why. 'Public convenience' (a bit dated) is the euphemism for a public lavatory.
Feb 19, 2012 · As far as the investigation for of the word with regard to lavatory (using ngram), I am afraid one will have to read a lot :) of Google book results.. I just spent some time reading the titles.. most of the titles were talking about God or King and were written in context of events from history..
Sep 7, 2011 · The straight dope has an answer to this question printed in 1985. The origins of referring to the outhouse as "john" or "jake" evidently goes back to the 16th-century.
I have heard the term "CFNM" being used in sexuality, does anybody know what the term means ? (Note: OP said "CNFM", but another user edited that to "CFNM".) Actually 'googling' didn't help at all.
The phrase take a powder meaning to "scram, vanish," is probably from the 20's; it was a common phrase as a doctor's instruction, so perhaps from the notion of taking a laxative medicine or a sleeping powder, with the result that one has to leave in a hurry (or, on another guess, from a magician's magical powder, which made things disappear).
Jun 13, 2019 · I didn’t used to is not wrong for most speakers of English. Your logic explaining why a rule of the language makes it is wrong is impeccable; but so is the logic argument that the perfect tense of eat should be eated.
Like, "YAML Ain't Markup Language", the expanded form of the abbreviation YAML uses itself in its definition and thus doesn't really define the actual thing. In this case, though, through negation, it restricts the purview of its meaning to a fairly ascertainable concept.
