dunny
Americannoun
noun
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dialect a cellar or basement
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dialect another word for dunnakin
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informal
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an outside lavatory
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( as modifier )
a dunny roll
a dunny seat
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dunny
1780–90; shortening of earlier dial. and criminal argot dunnekin outhouse, of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny door down - a way of wishing someone bad luck.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2014
Or touch the papery bark, flaking down, down around the grey dunny,* into opalescent scales.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nevertheless, Ezekiel put some pork and hard-bread in his dunny bag, and made ready his gaff and tow-lines, lest, by chance, the weather should promise fair at midnight.
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman
"Breeds" denotes the brim of a hat, and a deaf man is said to be "dunch" or "dunny."
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
Lord Clive taking the dunny from the Mogul.
From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel
Used a' their days wi' sleepin' in coal-rees and dunnies and dodgin' the polis.
From Huntingtower by Buchan, John
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