lavvy

lavvy noun: a lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

Noun

lavvy (plural lavvies)

(UK, slang) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- It must be great getting up during the night and not having to put a coat on over your jammies to visit the lavvy on the half-landing – especially in the winter when it's below zero.2011, Robert Douglas, Whose Turn for the Stairs?, →ISBN
- When I had to go to the lavvy there I always had to use that stiff, scratchy, smelly, lavvy paper she always said she 'put for the 'young ladies' - sniff'.2012, Glynis Dunnitt, Hidden History, →ISBN, page 61
Synonyms:

bathroom
(UK, slang) A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

Synonyms:

toilet

Cousin Anna and other traveller kids were playing over by the lavvy, and as I ran to join them, something monumental loomed on my horizon – the lavvy roof2013, Jess Smith, Sookin' Berries, →ISBN:
And she doesn't have to keep going to the lavvy like poor Mr Thomas and Miss Welch and so many of them.2013, Eileen Dewhurst, Whoever I Am, →ISBN:

plural	lavvies

From lav (“clipped form of lavatory”) + -y (“forming affectionate diminutives”).

What does lavvy mean?: Lavvy means a lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
How do you use lavvy in a sentence?: Cousin Anna and other traveller kids were playing over by the lavvy, and as I ran to join them, something monumental loomed on my horizon – the lavvy roof
What part of speech is lavvy?: Lavvy is a noun.
What is the plural of lavvy?: The plural of lavvy is lavvies.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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