Toilet vs Turd - What's the difference?
toilet | turd |
(label) Personal grooming; washing, dressing etc.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 111:
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* 1917 , Arthur Conan Doyle, :
(label) A dressing room.
Now specifically, a room or enclosed cubicle containing a lavatory, e.g. a bathroom or water closet (WC).
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* 2002 , Digby Tantam, Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework (page 122)
A lavatory or device for depositing human waste and then flushing it away with water.
Other similar devices, such as squat toilets, as in Japan or the Middle East.
(label) A shabby or dirty place, especially a lounge/bar/pub/tavern.
* 1982 , (The Mosquito Coast) :
(label) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or dressing room.
(label) A dressing table.
* 1904 , Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock , Canto I, lines 121-126:
(label) To dress and groom oneself
To use the toilet, or assist (a child, etc.) in using the toilet
(mildly, vulgar) A piece of solid animal or human feces.
A pejorative term, typically directed at a person.
As nouns the difference between toilet and turd
is that toilet is (label) personal grooming; washing, dressing etc while turd is (mildly|vulgar) a piece of solid animal or human feces.As a verb toilet
is (label) to dress and groom oneself.toilet
English
(wikipedia toilet)Alternative forms
* toiletteNoun
(en noun)- Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets , smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.
- "It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet , and never see the great soul in a man's face."
- "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."
- there were also tons of garbage festering in the sun, and the greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry, and dining rooms littered with food and black with flies, and toilet rooms that were open sewers.
- He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end.
- EPA is currently developing the specification for high-efficiency toilets . All HETs that meet WaterSense criteria for efficiency and performance will be eligible to receive a label once EPA finalizes the specification. —
US Environmental Protection Agency.
- Look around you. It's a toilet .
- And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d,
- Each silver vase in mystic order laid.
- First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores,
- With head uncover’d, the cosmetic powers.
- A heav’nly image in the glass appears;
- To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears.
Usage notes
Before the 20th century, toilet' universally referred to personal grooming, bathing, and washing, to combing or arranging one's hair, shaving, etc. This sense is preserved today in '''toiletry''' 'personal grooming item' and ' toilet bag . Nowadays, it is mostly used to indicate a toilet seat or a room with such a seat. Terms such as "pulmonary toilet" and "toilet of the mouth" are however still used in hospitals and clinics.Derived terms
{{der3, toilet bag , toilet basket , toilet box , toilet brush , toilet paper, TP , toilet powder , toilet roll , toilet seat , toilet service, toilet set , toilet train, toilet trained, toilet training , toilet table , toilet tent , toilet water , toiletry, toiletries}}Descendants
* Estonian: (l) * Japanese:Synonyms
* bathroom * bog * can * cloakroom * commode * crapper * dunny (Australian slang) * facilities * head * jacks (Hiberno-English) * john (US) * khazi * latrine * lav * lavatory * loo (British English) * outhouse * pisser * pot * potty * powder room * privy * restroom * shit house * shitter * stool * throne * thunderbox * WCVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
* * ----turd
English
Noun
(en noun)- I went to the toilet to drop a turd .
