Dunny vs Null - What's the difference?
dunny | null |
(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)
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between dunny and null
is that dunny is (australia|new zealand|slang) a toilet, often outside and rudimentary while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective dunny
is (uk|dialect) deaf; stupid.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.
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- 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.
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.