Dunny vs False - What's the difference?
dunny | false |
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A toilet, often outside and rudimentary.
* 2008 , Judith L. McNeil, No One's Child ,
* 2010 , Kathleen M. McGinley, Out of the Daydream: Based on the Autobiography of Barry Mcginley Jones ,
* 2010', Christopher Milne, ''The Boy Who Lived in a '''Dunny'' , in ''The Day Our Teacher Went Mad and Other Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls ,
(Scottish and northern English, slang, dated) An outside toilet, or the passageway leading to it; (by extension) a passageway or cellar.
(UK, dialect) Deaf; stupid.
* (rfdate) (Sir Walter Scott)
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between dunny and false
is that dunny is (uk|dialect) deaf; stupid while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun dunny
is (australia|new zealand|slang) a toilet, often outside and rudimentary.dunny
English
Etymology 1
From , via Australian convicts' flash language brought from London.Noun
(dunnies)page 95,
- There was one leaning dunny' down the back and, if you stayed very quiet, on a very still day you could hear the white ants as they chewed the wood.The bottom boards were already eaten through, and I avoided using the ' dunny at all costs.
page 47,
- The dunny was another place to go to get out of class. You got to go there by raising your hand in class and asking Miss if you could go to the lav.
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- ‘Until you wake up to yourself, you can live in the old dunny for all I care.’
- ‘All right, I will,’ said Tony.
Derived terms
* dunny can * dunny cart * dunny manEtymology 2
Adjective
(en adjective)- My old dame Joan is something dunny , and will scarce know how to manage.
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}