dunnekin
English
Etymology
From the addition of kin or ken, a pejorative form of house, to some form of danna, an obsolete slang for shit.
Usage notes
Originally English cant or dialect but now more common in Scottish, Australian, and New Zealand English.
Synonyms
- dunny; see also Thesaurus:bathroom
Derived terms
References
- "Danna" in James Camden Hotten's Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day (1859).
- "Dunegan" in Francis Grose's A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811).
- "dunny, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1972), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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