Potty vs Patty - What's the difference?
potty | patty |
A chamber pot used by young children while learning control of their bladder and bowels.
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(childish) A toilet bowl. Can be used as essentially a synonym of toilet or bathroom in some phrases, e.g. , porta-potty, potty humor.
(childish) Variant of go potty.
(informal) Insane.
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A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
* 1904 , Patty at Home , BiblioBazaar,LLC, 2007, ISBN 1434621162, page 36:
As nouns the difference between potty and patty
is that potty is a chamber pot used by young children while learning control of their bladder and bowels while patty is a flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.As a verb potty
is variant of go potty.As an adjective potty
is insane.As a proper noun Patty is
a diminutive of the female given name Patricia.potty
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(potties)Synonyms
* chamberpot, po, potVerb
(en-verb)Derived terms
* go potty * potty break * potty mouth * potty-training * porta-pottyEtymology 2
Adjective
(er)- The noise that the neighbour's kids were making was driving Fred potty .
- "A potty little nine-hole affair at a hydro in the Midlands. My cousins stay there. Always will. Not but what the fourth and the seventh holes take some doing. You could manage it, though," he said encouragingly.
Synonyms
* See alsopatty
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "That sounds like Aunt Isabel. They always call me Patricia there. Don't you think, papa, now that I'm getting so grown up, I ought to be called Patricia? Patty is such a baby name."
- "Patty is good enough for me," said Mr. Fairfield.