dunny

American  

[duhn-ee] / ˈdʌn i /

noun

Australian Slang.

• dunnies
  plural

1. an outside privy; outhouse.

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dunny British  

/ ˈdʌnɪ /

noun

1. dialect a cellar or basement

2. dialect another word for dunnakin

3. informal

   1. an outside lavatory

   2. ( as modifier )

      a dunny roll

      a dunny seat

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dunnies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of dunny

1780–90; shortening of earlier dial. and criminal argot dunnekin outhouse, of obscure origin

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Example Sentences

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dunny dunnies

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 Norman Duncan

"Breeds" denotes the brim of a hat, and a deaf man is said to be "dunch" or "dunny."

From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

Lord Clive taking the dunny from the Mogul.

From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow

Used a' their days wi' sleepin' in coal-rees and dunnies and dodgin' the polis.

From Huntingtower by John Buchan

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