toilet

Less common meanings

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   verbtransitive

   To help someone, such as a child, use a toilet.

   Nurses toilet patients who cannot walk.

   She had to toilet her toddler before the trip.

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   dirty placenounfigurativelycountable

   A very dirty, run-down, or unpleasant place to be.

   Like a place so messy and dirty that you don't even want to go inside.

   Their old apartment was a real toilet.

   After the party, the whole house looked like a toilet.

   UsageIt's a toilet is a rude way to say a place is dirty.

   Similardump, hole, dive

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   nounarchaichistorical

   The act of washing, dressing, and fixing your hair.

   Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet.

   1913, Rabindranath Tagore, Come as you are...Here, toilet means washing, dressing, and fixing your hair.

   Here, at night, a lonely but brilliantly neon-illuminated figure, I performed my toilet, watched incuriously by the Burmese seated at the tables of the tea-shops below.

   1952, Norman Lewis, Golden EarthHere, toilet means washing and getting dressed and groomed.

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   groomingverbdatedintransitive

   To wash, dress, and fix your hair and appearance.

   Similardress, groom, primp

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   nounobsolete

   A pot kept in a bedroom and used as a toilet at night.

   Similarpotty, pot, commode, bedpan

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   nounarchaic

   A person's outfit or particular way of dressing.

   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.

   1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], MiddlemarchHere, toilette means way of dressing, so animals that wear clothes.

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    nounarchaic

    A room used for dressing and grooming.

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    nounobsolete

    An old word for a dressing table, or the fine cloth laid over one.

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

    1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the LockHere, toilet means a dressing table, or the fine cloth over it.

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    noun

    A very rude, insulting slang word for a woman, used to treat her as an object.