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Urinal of the Planets

name

Etymology

In allusion to the frequent rainy weather.

Definitions

  1. Derogatory name for Ireland

    Derogatory name for Ireland: an island and country in northwestern Europe.

    • A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland's wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Planets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.)
    • 'I thought you would have preferred to have been with them in that stinking urinal of the planets, looking for bog-oranges.' Kempe's sympathy towards the plight of the Irish was well known, and he had no sympathisers here tonight.

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