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do one's easement

do one's easement verb: to ease one's bowels: to defecate.

Verb

do one's easement (third-person singular simple present does one's easement, present participle doing one's easement, simple past did one's easement, past participle done one's easement)

  1. (dated, euphemistic) To ease one's bowels: to defecate.
    • He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayers.2013, Shirley McKay, “A Merry Month”, in Friend & Foe (A Hew Cullen Mystery), Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN

Forms of do one's easement

third-person singular presentdoes one's easement
present participledoing one's easement
pastdid one's easement
past participledone one's easement

Origin of do one's easement

From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.

Words formed from do one's easement

Questions about do one's easement

What does do one's easement mean?
Do one's easement means to ease one's bowels: to defecate.
What part of speech is do one's easement?
Do one's easement is a verb.
What is the past tense of do one's easement?
The past tense of do one's easement is did one's easement.

Words near do one's easement in the dictionary

  1. do one's business
  2. do one's damnedest
  3. do one's darnedest
  4. do one's duty
  5. do one's ease
  6. do one's easement
  7. do one's homework
  8. do one's job
  9. do one's nut
  10. do one's own thing
  11. do one's own time

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