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(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)
As a noun dunny is
(australia|new zealand|slang) a toilet, often outside and rudimentary.As an adjective dunny is
(uk|dialect) deaf; stupid.wikidiffcom
Not English
Wikidiffcom has no English definition. It may be misspelled.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.