What do Aussies call toilets?

dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.

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What is a slang word for toilet?

commode. crapper (coarse slang) crapper trapper (coarse slang, rare) devil's back roads (slang, rare) dunny (AU&NZ, slang)

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What do Australians call Porta potties?

Dunny: If you eat Vegemite with every meal and have seen a few kangaroos in your lifetime, you'll refer to a movable toilet as a dunny. Australians usually call any toilet located outside a “dunny,” and a porta potty is no exception.

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Is dunny a rude word in Australia?

The word “Dunny” is Australian slang for toilet or outhouse. Technically “Dunny” isn't a rude word but not many people on average say the word dunny.

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Is dunny slang for toilet?

Dunny is Australian/New Zealand slang for a toilet.

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How to Say "Toilet" | Australian Slang

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What do Kiwis call bathrooms?

New Zealand and Australia share many words. Dunny, a colloquial word for a toilet, is one of them. The public toilets in Ōtorohanga are graced with various words meaning toilet, including dunny, and the Māori term wharepaku.

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How do Australian Say bathroom?

An outdoor toilet is a Dunny and an indoor toliet is called a loo.

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What do Aussies call cigarettes?

Durry is the spread Australian term for a cigarette. Among the younger generation, it is often called ciggies or darts.

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What do Aussies call a duvet?

Originally called a continental quilt, duvets are commonly referred to in Australia by the generic trademark doona.

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What do they call girls in Australia?

Aussie Slang Words For Women:

Chick. Woman. Lady. Bird.

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What do Australians call underpants?

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Underdaks, also called underchunders or underdungers, is a colloquial name for your underpants. Daks are trousers, therefore underdaks must logically be underwear. Simple.

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What do Australians call flip flops?

The shoe known in Australia as a “thong” is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world. Worn with small variations across Egypt, Rome, Greece, sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Korea, Japan and some Latin American cultures, the shoe was designed to protect the sole while keeping the top of the foot cool.

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What do Australians call bum bags?

The preferred Australasian term for fanny pack is bum bag.

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What do posh people say instead of toilet?

Toilet. This was on the original 1950s list and, to be honest, I'd rather chew glass than use the word toilet in polite conversation. It's a harsh word that was adapted from the French toilette which means your appearance, hence toiletries bag. Lavatory or loo is much more acceptable.

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What are four other names for the toilet?

  • latrine.
  • lavatory.
  • outhouse.
  • restroom.
  • can.
  • commode.
  • head.
  • john.

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How do you say pee in a fancy way?

synonyms for urinate
  1. pee.
  2. micturate.
  3. tinkle.
  4. have to go.
  5. peepee.
  6. take a leak.
  7. wizz.

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What do Australians call a couch?

Sofa is more common in Britain, while couch is preferred in North America, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

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What do Australians call umbrellas?

The word Brolly is the slang term used for an umbrella in Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland and even in South Africa. Some locals also call it the storm stick, a rain-shade, even a bumbershoot!

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What do Australians call bed sheets?

Setting up home in Australia will require a stop at a manchester shop. Manchester is what the locals call bed linen, because Manchester, the northern British industrial city and one-time centre of the cotton spinning industry, was the main source of bedding for Australia's early settlers.

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What do Australians call BBQ?

In Australia, barbecuing is a popular summer pastime, often referred to as a "barbie". Traditional meats cooked are lamb chops, beef steak, and sausages (colloquially known as "snags").

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How do Aussies say goodbye?

Catch you later is an Australian slang form of saying 'goodbye'. A: Anyway, it's time for me to go home. Catch you later. If you do happen to talk to an Australian they may ask you if you are fair dinkum.

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How do Aussies say goodnight?

It's "good evening", or the non-time specific "g'day". Contributor's comments: I grew up in Brisbane, and have never, heard 'Goodnight' as a greeting.

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How do Australians say garbage?

bin. Avoid the use of the word garbage at all costs especially if you are trying to get children to throw something out, as you are giving them good reason to ignore you. You throw 'rubbish' out in the 'bin' in Australia.

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Why do Australians call the bathroom funny?

A: It dates from the early 1800s, Scottish in origin, from dung + ken (house) to give “dunnekin” as another name for the outhouse. Once the toilet moved inside, Australians and New Zealanders dropped the kin and kept with the dunny.

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