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dunny
noun- a toilet AUSTRALIA, 1933
A shortening of dunniken, from British dialect and cant. Thought to be a compound of “danna” (excrement) and “ken” (house). Before the age of septic tanks and flush toilets the “dunny” was a wooden outhouse standing far back from a dwelling. The spelling “dunnee” seems only to have been favoured by Barry Humphries in his Bazza MacKenzie comic strip. - Oh, get ripped–you wasn’t here when the dunny blew up. — Sumner Locke Elliott, Rusty Bugles, p. 15, 1948
- This place pongs like an out back dunnee! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 19, 1968
- He went to the dunny and sat on the seat lid and cried. — Ronald McKie, The Mango Tree, p. 193, 1975
- “Betty!” screamed the cook. “Take Mr Scobie to the dunny willya.” — Elizabeth Jolley, Mr Scobie’s Riddle, p. 185, 1983
- You were a bit of a smartarse when you started here. Putting a tenpenny bunger under Old Jack’s backside when he sat on the dunny. — Barry Dickins, What the dickins, p. 86, 1985
- There was no torch available for my father because I had dropped it down the dunny the night before. — Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda, p. 4, 1988
- the vagina BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 67, 1982
- money JAMAICA
- — Velma Pollard, Dread Talk, p. 49, 2000
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