re: #476 fat bastard vegetarian
I keep a Watchman Nee book, in my toilet to read.
lav / lavvy: shortened form of lavatory. “Just going to the lavvy luvvy!”
loo: from the French bordalou, a ladies portable toilet that looked a bit like a gravy-boat and was carried inside a muff (a big, fury, double-glove for keeping the hands warm).
karsy: from the Italian casa (house). Don’t say this in front of your English host-family.
thunder-box: British Indian army term. Self explanatory.
colfabias: this is actually fake Latin. Used by students at Trinity College, University of Dublin.
fourth: used at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. In the 19th century the college lavatories were in the 4th court, so “gone 4” or “taking a fourth” meant going to the toilet.
Jerry: Jericho was (still is, actually) the rough area of Oxford. So “going for a Jerry” became a slang expression for urinating.
forakers: from the Latin forica meaning privy.
little boy’s room: euphemism for the chaps’ loo.
little girl’s room: euphemism for the ladies’ loo.
po: from the French pot de chambre (chamber-pot), kept under the bed for night-soil.
throne room: obvious euphemism.
the bogs: British schoolboy term for toilet.
“going up the end of the garden”: a reference to when British homes had outside lavatories, usually at the end of the garden.
on the pan: to be sitting on the lavatory.