How many different names for the toilet

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In another thread a toilet was called a chuntie!

I've never heard it called that, so cumon from each area of the UK what do you call the toilet?
 
When I was a kid in rural Somerset we called our outside long drops a 'Gadge' Not sure if it was a local word but I haven't heard it anywhere else. Bloomin' spooky it were on dark winter night too, I can tell ya. Didn't hang about in there for long.
 
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Ty Bach surely!!

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Lavvie

Bog House (Graffiti inside: "The painters work has been in vain, the bog house poet has struck again!)

LOLOAQICI82QB4IP
 
Bigpeetee said:
Ty Bach surely!!

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Lavvie

Bog House (Graffiti inside: "The painters work has been in vain, the bog house poet has struck again!)

LOLOAQICI82QB4IP
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Ty Bach yes from the days when the toilet was out the back.
 
just for the record :)

Div Ye Mine

Div y' min fin chunties 'neath the bed
Saved journeys in the caul'?
If ye admit t' minin' 'at,
Like me……….yer getting' aul'!


Chunties were more likely a seated flushing toilet bowl but Po's and Pails were ever present as were thrown clay hot water bottles before rubber was rife. In one of my homes was a magnificent victorian heavily crazed toilet bowl - my mother said on sight of it - hey eddie! Kin ye nae get a new chuntie! :lol-053:

also known as a thunder box.
 
scenictraveller said:
just for the record :)

Div Ye Mine

Div y' min fin chunties 'neath the bed
Saved journeys in the caul'?
If ye admit t' minin' 'at,
Like me……….yer getting' aul'!


Chunties were more likely a seated flushing toilet bowl but Po's and Pails were ever present as were thrown clay hot water bottles before rubber was rife. In one of my homes was a magnificent victorian heavily crazed toilet bowl - my mother said on sight of it - hey eddie! Kin ye nae get a new chuntie! :lol-053:

also known as a thunder box.
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Yeah, I remember Thunder box. I think that was/is more an army term
 
it's a "netty" here in the north east, and dont forget to put the sneck on the door or some one may walk in
 
Khazi, bog, lavvie, little boys/girls room, cloakroom, powder room, WC, crapper... all depends on how posh you are. London has a huge cross section of dialects and people. Not that I'm from there but have lived around here for a while.
 
A Guzunder

More a term for a pottery potty as it guz under the bed
 
crapper or bog,used to be an underground crapper in london,all the bowls made by thomas crapper,where the cisterns were thick glass and had goldfish in them.always fun to pull the chain and watch them go down ! the urinals were made by armitage shanks and had a lifelike bluebottle glazed into them to aim at
 
When I was a little girl I used to stay at my Grandma's, where there was an outside lavvie. So in the night we used the "po" which went under the bed. Years later I realised this was the French pronunciation of "pot" - an attempt to make it sound a bit posher and more dignified.
 
loo is derived from guardez-l'eau,an early form of golden shower,but obviously,less welcome
 
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