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karzy
noun
a lavatory; also used in a figurative sense UK, 1961
From the Italian casa (a house) which is also its original use. Many slang words have alternate spellings but users of the karzy have more choices than most: “khazi”; “kharzi”; “kharzie”; “kazi”; “karsi”; “carsey”; “carsie”; “carzie”; “cawsey”; “cawsy”. The variations spelt with a “k” date from the mid-C20. Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, 1958, uses “cawsy”.- If you go through one door you’re in a karsi and if you go through the other door you’re in a back yard[.] — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 54, 22 June 1974
- Gawd. This is a carsie. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 73, 1984
- Prince Charles thinking he’s been flushed down the karzy[.] — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 13, 1994
- I could be in kharzi taking a leak when someone rings. — Kitty Churchill, Thinking of England, p. 162, 1995
- Cos when my mam was young they had an iron bath in the backyard and an outside khazi. — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1996
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 34, 1996
- [T]he King’s collapse with his trousers round his ankles on the kazi[.] — Drugs An Adult Guide, p. 49, December 2001
- I was somewhat in need of the khazi. To this, er, end, I was delighted to discover that the event was a latrine-centric affair[.] — ES Magazine, p. 3, 22 June 2001
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