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toilet

noun
/ˈtɔɪ.lət/

Etymology

From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.

  1. derived from toilette

Definitions

  1. A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used…

    A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.

    • Sorry, I was in the toilet.
    • He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end.
    • He wet his thumb with saliva pressing on the tongue, ran it up and down faster over the letter 'I' of 'TOILET', the 'LADIES TOILET' was transformed into 'LADIES TO LET' in no time.

  2. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and…

    A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system.

    • My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.

  3. A very shabby or dirty place.

    • Look around you. It's a toilet.
    • Mr. Gaunt was urbane and smiling again, not a hair out of place. "Do you like this little town? Do you love it? […]" / […] "I hate this fucking toilet," he said to Leland Gaunt.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or…

      A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.

    2. The table covered by such a cloth

      The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.

      • And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d, / Each silver vase in mystic order laid.

    3. Personal grooming

      Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.

      • Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […].
      • Beautiful eyes are the gift of Nature, and can owe little to the toilet.
      • Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet.

    4. One's style of dressing

      One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.

      • It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilette, and never see the great soul in a man's face.
      • "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."

    5. A dressing room.

    6. A chamber pot.

    7. A woman.

      • I’m not interested in toilets and I don’t think a gf [Girlfriend] is needed to live a fulfilling life.
      • A user, @blacklister, concludes that “toilets are as vacuous as their value besides pleasing men”, with a remark on how women should be handed out by the state to every man to minimise inceldom.
      • I can’t bare listening to a toilet talk. I don’t wanna listen to toilet songs,or watch them in movies. They have nothing to offer other than sexuality

    8. To dress and groom oneself.

    9. To use (urinate or defecate in) a toilet.

      • We use imitation. We take a doll, a doll that can wet, and make sure it has pants on it. We use the principle that a very effective way of learning is by teaching. Se we have him teach the doll how to toilet properly.

    10. To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.

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Derived

aural toilet, Detoilet, down the toilet, ear toilet, flushing toilet, flying toilet, go down the toilet, go toilet, go to the toilet, in the toilet, I want to go to the toilet, lung toilet, make one's toilet, marine toilet, pay toilet, pig toilet, pit toilet, Pittsburgh toilet, public toilet, pulmonary toilet, sitting toilet, the toilet is clogged, toilet article kit, toilet baby, toilet bag, toilet basket, toilet block, toilet book, toilet bowl, toilet box, toilet break, toilet brush, toilet claw, toilet cloth, toilet club, toilet cover, toilet glass, toilet humor, toilet humour, toilet jack · +39 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at toilet. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at toilet. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at toilet

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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