potty
UK/ˈpɒti/US/ˈpɑti/
potty noun: a chamber pot.
Noun
potty (plural potties)
- A chamber pot.
- Synonyms:
- chamber pot
- A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.
- If you just let him know you want him to go on the potty, or anything, he's miles away.1940, William Carlos Williams, In the Money
- Mothers very often make the baby and themselves unhappy by setting the child on the potty every hour.1949, Edith Buxbaum, Your Child Makes Sense: A Guidebook for Parents
- Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.
Verb
potty (third-person singular simple present potties, present participle pottying, simple past and past participle pottied)
Adjective
potty (comparative pottier, superlative pottiest)
- Insane.
- The noise that the neighbour's kids were making was driving Fred potty.
- It’s all very well for the Warden to talk about an open mind, but we shall all feel perfectly ghastly wondering what other people are thinking about us, and whether our own conversation doesn’t sound a little potty. It’s the pottiness, you know, that’s so awful.1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
- Easy to pot the ball on.
- The Eastbourne Green is by no means a " potty " one, and happily belies its appearance.1890, Golf...: A Weekly Record of "ye Royal and Auncient" Game
- "A potty little nine-hole affair at a hydro in the Midlands. My cousins stay there. Always will. Not but what the fourth and the seventh holes take some doing. You could manage it, though," he said encouragingly.1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon
potty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
potty in Hindi
- पॉटी, पोटी
potty in Tamil
- சாதாரணமான, முக்கியத்துவம் அற்ற, சற்றுக் கிறுக்கான, சிறு மலங்கழி தொட்டி
potty in Marathi
- पॉटी, पोटी
potty in Urdu
- چھوٹا, کم ظرف, خبطی
More languagesFewer languages
- potty in Bengali
- পোটি
- potty in Malayalam
- കിറുക്കുള്ള, വാതുല, ഭ്രാന്തുള്ള, ഉന്മത്തനായ
- potty in Kannada
- ಮೂತ್ರಪಾತ್ರೆ, ತಿಕ್ಕಲಿನ, ಐಲುತನದ, ಬುದ್ಧಿಗೇಡಿತನದ
- potty in Punjabi
- ਪੋਟੀ, ਪੌਟੀ, ਪੋਟਟੀ
- potty in Gujarati
- પોટી, પોટ્ટી
- potty in Odia
- ପୋଟି
- potty in Nepali
- पोट्टी, पॉटी
- potty in Arabic
- قَعَادَة طِفْل
Examples of potty in a sentence
- The OS diaper is marketed for kids 8-35lbs (sometimes 10-40lbs), or birth to potty training.
- "Why'd you slip the potty princess a turbolax if you already put oatmeal in her pamps?"
- The situation was even more complicated when his twins, now 4, weren’t potty trained.
Synonyms of potty
Forms of potty
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | potties |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | potties |
| present participle | pottying |
| past participle | pottied |
| past | pottied |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | pottier |
| superlative | pottiest |
Origin of potty
From pot (“chamberpot”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Words formed from potty
- big boy potty
- big girl potty
- big kid potty
- birth-to-potty
- birth-to-potty diaper
- birth-to-potty nappy
- go potty
- go to the potty
- on the potty
- Pittsburgh potty
- pity potty
- porta-potty
- port-o-potty
- potty accident
- potty animal
- potty break
- potty chair
- potty champ
- potty champion
- potty chart
- potty dance
- potty emergency
- potty failure
- potty humor
- potty language
- potty learning
- potty license
- potty monster
- potty mouth
- potty-mouthed
- potty pants
- potty parity
- potty princess
- potty rebel
- potty seat
- potty stool
- potty talk
- potty time
- potty-train
- potty train
- potty trained
- potty-trained
- potty training
- potty untraining
- squatty potty
- training potty
- unpotty training
- use the potty
- pottily
- pottiness
Phrases with potty
- goes potty
- gone potty
- went potty
- going potty
- potty breaks
- potty chairs
- potty charts
- potty danced
- potty dances
- potty mouths
- potty stools
- potty trains
5 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with potty
7 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about potty
- What does potty mean?
- Potty means a chamber pot.
- What is potty in Hindi?
- Potty in Hindi is पॉटी, पोटी. See Potty meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is potty?
- Potty can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce potty?
- Potty is pronounced /ˈpɒti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of potty?
- The plural of potty is potties.
Words near potty in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: potty (page history and authors); potty (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); potty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); potty (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); potty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); potty (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); potty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); potty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); potty (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); potty (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); potty (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); potty (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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