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dunnyman

dunnyman is the alternative form of dunny man.

Meaning of dunny man

Noun

dunny man (plural dunny men)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, historical) Someone employed to empty the cesspit from a basic toilet which is not attached to a plumbing system.
    • Luckily the dunny man was a model of probity. Never putting a foot wrong, he carried out his Sisyphean task in loyal silence.1980, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs

Forms of dunnyman

pluraldunnymen

Questions about dunnyman

What is dunnyman the alternative form of?
Dunnyman is the alternative form of dunny man.

Words near dunnyman in the dictionary

  1. dunny-ken
  2. dunnycan
  3. dunnycans
  4. dunnyken
  5. dunnykens
  6. dunnyman
  7. dunnymen
  8. Dunolly
  9. Dunoon
  10. Dunorlan
  11. Dunphy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dunnyman (page history and authors); dunny man (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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