Washroom: a polite word for bathroom. The Canadian version of “restroom.”
It's a room for washing (hands usually), not for resting. Makes sense to me. I think its really odd that Americans call it a “restroom”.
This room is commonly known as a "bathroom" in American English, a lavatory or loo in the United Kingdom, a "washroom" in Canadian English, and by many other names across the English-speaking world.
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.
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.
Originally 'wash-down closet', it quickly evolved into the phrase water closet through common usage. Over time, it has simply become 'WC'. In fact, in some countries such as Mexico WC is widely used on toilet signage, although the majority of the population don't actually know the derivations of the letters.
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.
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.
Washroom: a polite word for bathroom. The Canadian version of “restroom.”
In Canada, a chesterfield is a couch or sofa; that is, a large, cushioned seat that can fit more than one person. Note that if the couch can seat exactly two people, that type of couch is typically referred to as a loveseat.
So don't be surprised if you're in Canada or at a Northern border town and find yourself looking for a porta-potty only for it to be called a portable washroom!
loo (British, informal) washroom. can (US, Canadian, slang) john (slang, mainly US, Canadian) head(s) (nautical, slang)
THE LOO. The 'loo' is very common in the UK & Ireland, and is a safe and polite way to say toilet.
The bathroom is the “Badezimmer” in German and the “toilet” is the “Toilette”.
A female kangaroo is known as a 'flyer' or a 'doe' and a male kangaroo a 'buck' or a 'boomer' (hence the nickname of the Australian men's basketball team, the Boomers). They live in social groups called mobs.
Here in Australia, however, McDonald's most prevalent nickname is “Macca's”. A recent branding survey commissioned by McDonald's Australia found that 55 per cent of Australians refer to the company by its local slang name.
dacks (daks) – trousers, most likely derived from the London clothier Daks (founded in 1894). Trackie dacks are tracksuit trousers, and underdacks are underpants or knickers.
Australians have been using the word freely since its probable emergence in the late 19th century as a nickname for English immigrants, a short form of pomegranate, referring to their ruddy complexions.
While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.
And there is also a small sink in the loo, so we can brush our teeth there if we want. Footnote: Take a bath is American English. In British English we have a bath / shower.