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bog roll

noun

Etymology

From bog + roll.

  1. derived from rollāre
  2. derived from rotula — “a little wheel”
  3. derived from rotulāre — “to roll; to revolve”
  4. derived from roller
  5. inherited from rollen
  6. compounded as bog roll — “bog + roll”

Definitions

  1. Toilet paper.

    • "Aliens used up our bog roll?" "Just because they're aliens, it doesn't mean they don't have to visit the smallest room. Only, they probably do something weird and alienesque; like it comes out of the top of their heads, or something."

  2. A roll of toilet paper.

    • This week on The Amazing Prize Giveaway Show, the grand prize is 10,000 bog rolls!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bog roll. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA