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lavvy

noun

Etymology

From lav (“clipped form of lavatory”) + -y (“forming affectionate diminutives”).

Definitions

  1. A lavatory

    A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

    • It must be great getting up during the night and not having to put a coat on over your jammies to visit the lavvy on the half-landing – especially in the winter when it's below zero.
    • When I had to go to the lavvy there I always had to use that stiff, scratchy, smelly, lavvy paper she always said she 'put for the 'young ladies' - sniff'.
    • Cousin Anna and other traveller kids were playing over by the lavvy, and as I ran to join them, something monumental loomed on my horizon – the lavvy roof

  2. A toilet

    A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

The neighborhood

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