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toilet

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  • //ˈtɔɪ.lət//
  • //ˈtɔɪ.lɪt//

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

sostantivo

  1. 1

    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. 2

    A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet. A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    figuratoA 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.

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    obsoletoThe 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.

  7. 7

    arcaicoPersonal 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.

    Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets, smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.

  8. 8

    arcaicoOne'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."

  9. 9

    arcaicoA dressing room.

  10. 10

    obsoletoA chamber pot.

  11. 11

    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

Etimologia

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.

verbo

  1. 1

    desuetoTo dress and groom oneself.

  2. 2

    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.

    In many developing regions, toileting at night is especially dangerous for children. Without electrical power for lighting, kids may fall into the deep pits of the latrines through broken or unsteady floorboards. Girls are sometimes assaulted by men who hide in the dark.

  3. 3

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

Forme

plurale
toilets
passato
toileted, toiletted
participio passato
toileted, toiletted
participio presente
toileting, toiletting
3ª persona singolare
toilets
Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

Contenuto lessicale tratto da Wiktionary, sotto licenza CC BY-SA 4.0 · Voce di origine · Versione dei dati 2026-08-23

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