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potty

nounverbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈpɒti//
  • United States//ˈpɑdi//

A chamber pot.

noun

  1. 1

    A chamber pot.

  2. 2

    A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.

    If you just let him know you want him to go on the potty, or anything, he's miles away.

    Mothers very often make the baby and themselves unhappy by setting the child on the potty every hour.

  3. 3

    Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.

Etymology

From pot (“chamberpot”) + -y (diminutive suffix).

verb

  1. 1

    Synonym of go potty.

    If anybody needs to potty, do it now before we go.

adjective

  1. 1

    informalInsane.

    The noise that the neighbour's kids were making was driving Fred potty.

    It’s all very well for the Warden to talk about an open mind, but we shall all feel perfectly ghastly wondering what other people are thinking about us, and whether our own conversation doesn’t sound a little potty. It’s the pottiness, you know, that’s so awful.

  2. 2

    Easy to pot the ball on.

    The Eastbourne Green is by no means a " potty " one, and happily belies its appearance.

    "A potty little nine-hole affair at a hydro in the Midlands. My cousins stay there. Always will. Not but what the fourth and the seventh holes take some doing. You could manage it, though," he said encouragingly.

Forms

plural
potties
comparative
pottier
superlative
pottiest
past tense
pottied
past participle
pottied
present participle
pottying
third person singular
potties
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).