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point
verb
▶ point Dennis at the Doulton
(of a male) to urinate AUSTRALIA
Doulton is a manufacturer of china.- — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
▶ point Percy
(of a male) to urinate AUSTRALIA
A familiar shortening of POINTPERCYATTHEPORCELAIN- I’ve pointed old percy [urinated], down a couple [of beers]... and bunged a few leg openers into that sheilah [woman] out there!!! — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
▶ point Percy at the porcelain
(of a male) to urinate AUSTRALIA
Conventionally ‘point PERCYporcelain (the china of a lavatory). Popularised in the UK in the late 1960s and early 70s via a Private Eye magazine cartoon strip and two films featuring Barry Mackenzie, an OCKERPercy’s Progress, about a man who had a penis transplant. All of which lends credence to the unproven assertion that this phrase is an Australian coinage.- No worries–I’ll meet you at the customs. I’ve just got to flash off and point Percy at the porcelain! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 37, 1968
- England brings out the wrost in you. It makes you want to talk about pillow biters and pointing percy at the porcelain. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 204, 1987
- [L]ift the toilet lid and point Percy at the Porcelain, Shake Hands with My Friend, Exercise The One-Eyed Trouser Snake. — Stuart Browne, Dangerous Parking, p. 280, 2000
▶ point the bone
to point blame at someone; to accuse someone AUSTRALIA, 1943
Figuratively recalling the Australian Aboriginal ritual practice of pointing a bone at a person in order to wish death upon them.- The greatest sin against the Australian spirit of mateship is to point the bone at a cobber, i.e. sneak on a friend[.] — Arthur Chipper, The Aussie Swearer’s Guide, p. 33, 1972
- Go along with this and you get a winning fee plus a nice bonus and there’ll be no way Watson or Robertson can point the bone at you. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 199, 1988
- We are not pointing the bone at any particular club in our submission to the AFL, but we believe 11 clubs is too many to play out of Melbourne. — Advertiser, p. 54, 1 May 1991
▶ point the finger
to testify on behalf of the prosecution NEW ZEALAND, 1982- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 101, 1999
▶ point the finger at
to identify someone or something as having a specific responsibility UK, 1833- “ [A]ll those who bear some responsibility for what happened have dashed for cover at the first whiff of cordite,” he [Alex Brummer] said, pointing the finger at the government, the Association of British Insurers and the Financial Services Authority. — The Guardian, 11 March 2004
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