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.
Restroom is another US phrase which refers to the act of refreshing yourself – hence the word “rest”. As you can imagine, this is a polite way of alluding to using the toilet.
Serviette is at the top of the list as a class delineator, along with lavatory (posh) instead of toilet (twee). (It makes for interesting reading.) So some words are posher (although the term posh is not posh, unless it's used ironically).
No, it is not vulgar, but using the word bathroom is more common. Toilet tends to denote the actual toilet. Example: The house has one and a half bathrooms; One bathroom with bathtub and toilet and one with only a toilet.
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.
THE LOO. The 'loo' is very common in the UK & Ireland, and is a safe and polite way to say toilet.
(pɒʃ ) Word forms: posher, poshest. adjective. If you describe something as posh, you mean that it is elegant, fashionable, and expensive. [informal]
sweet, afters, dessert
The course at the end of the meal is "pudding" for royals and the upper class. The terms "sweet," "afters," or "dessert" are all deemed unacceptable, she wrote. (Side note: Some very posh people shorten the word to "pud.")
For example, the word 'lounge' is a no-no for the upper classes, 'dinner' is the preferred term for the evening meal, and 'napkin' is better than 'serviette'.
In England, the word 'napkin' is typically used to describe a feminine hygiene product (sanitary napkin). Although most people are aware of the double usage of the word, in London, the word 'serviette' is preferred in a restaurant or eating establishment.
Lavatory or loo is much more acceptable.
pisser (coarse slang) pooper (slang) porcelain god (slang) porcelain goddess (slang) pot.
The standard British accent is something called received pronunciation, or RP. Geographically, people who speak with this accent live in the southeastern part of England. This is traditionally a “posh” part of England, so this accent is considered to be upper/middle class.
'Often' Pronunciation UK
tən/ . For others, the 't' in the word is silent and it is pronounced as 'off-en' /ˈɒf. ən/. Both pronunciations of the word are acceptable to use, but only one of them is considered 'posh' (indicating that the speaker belongs to a higher social class).
The phrase Received Pronunciation was coined in 1869 by the linguist, A J Ellis, but it only became a widely used term to describe the accent of the social elite after the phonetician, Daniel Jones, adopted it for the second edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary (1924).
elegant; luxurious; smart; first-class (origin uncertain, probably from obsolete 'posh' - dandy, also, money) Dictionary of Australian slang .
pish posh. old-fashioned informalUK. used to express disagreement or to say that something is nonsense: Oh, pish posh! Ridiculous.
For the uninitiated, cludgie is a Scottish word meaning “toilet”, although probably not to be used in the politest of companies.
As with many English words, some are common in American English and others are common in British English. However, words such as: bathroom, ladies room, men's room and restroom are common to both. On most airlines, the toilet is referred to as “the lavatory”.
An old Tudor phrase for lavatory, jacks is a term more commonly used in Ireland. This is likely a reference to Jack Power, who invented the first multiple cubicle toilet.