Meaning & use
Dunny
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Australian and New Zealand informal term for a toilet, especially an outdoor one.
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The old farmhouse still had a dunny out back instead of indoor plumbing.
He joked about the spider he found in the dunny that morning.
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Believed to derive from British dialect "dunnekin," an old term for a privy.
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