privies

Noun

privy (plural privies)

1. An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
2. A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
   • To counteract these degrading effects he advised that the privy should be in every house the room nearest to heaven, […].1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus

   Synonyms:

   bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WC, cloaca, closet

3. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
   • Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean...1864 January 26, J.G. Lindsay, letter to P.P.L. O'Connel, §8

   Synonyms:

   big white telephone, bog, can, commode, crapper, crapper trapper, donniker, dunny, head, highway to hell

4. A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.

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