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词组 loo
释义 loo
noun
a lavatory UK, 1940
Many possible etymologies, mostly from French sources. Contracted from C18 bordalou (a portable ladies’ privy, shaped like a sauce-boat and carried in a muff); l’eau (water) or the C18 warning-cry “gardy-loo”, from pseudo-French gare de l’eau (beware of the water), given when emptying the contents of a chamber pot out of a window into the street beneath; an anglicised lieu (the place), as in the frequently mispronounced “time off in lieu/loo”. The only entirely English suggestion is a corruption of “leeward”, the sheltered side of a ship over which excretory functions were sensibly performed. The most convincing possibilites are an abbreviated pun on Waterloo, the London railway station named to commemorate the famous battle of Waterloo in Belgium (1815); and the darkly witty reduction of l’oubliette (a secret dungeon, often with a pit below).
  • Marchmare would hide his bird’s knickers in the loo or somewhere[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 30, 1962
  • In the loo at the Louvre? — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 174, 1963
  • In the Cat Flap Club ladies’ loo lots of girls were standing around gossiping[.] — Stewart Homes, Sex Kick [britpulp], p. 211, 1999
  • [S]he relieved herself in a motorway services loo on the way[.] — ES Magazine, p. 3, 22 June 2001
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