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单词 dunnekin
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dunnekinn.

Brit. /ˈdʌnᵻkᵻn/, U.S. /ˈdənəkən/, Australian English /ˈdʌnəkən/, New Zealand English /ˈdʌnəkən/
Forms: 1700s dannakew (probably transmission error), 1700s dunnakew (probably transmission error), 1700s– dunnakin, 1800s donneken, 1800s donnican, 1800s donnick, 1800s donnykin, 1800s dunagan, 1800s dunakin, 1800s dunnaken, 1800s dunnecan, 1800s dunnick, 1800s dunniken, 1800s– dunegan, 1800s– dunnekin, 1800s– dunnikin, 1800s– dunnyken, 1900s– dunikin, 1900s– dunnican, 1900s– dunnigan, 1900s– dunnikan.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, ken n.2
Etymology: Probably < a word meaning ‘excrement’ (perhaps ultimately a variant of dung n.1) + ken n.2Such a word meaning ‘excrement’ is perhaps reflected by the following examples, although (in view of the relative chronology and the narrow range of attestations) danna may instead show a back-formation or rationalization from the present word:1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 184 Knapping a jacob from a danna-drag. This is a curious species of robbery..; it signifies taking away the short ladder from a nightman's cart, while the men are gone into a house, the privy of which they are employed emptying, in order to effect an ascent.1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 29 Danna, excrement. Danna drag, a nightman's or dustman's cart.
Chiefly English regional and English, Australian, and New Zealand slang.
An outside toilet; a privy, an outhouse. Cf. dunny n.3
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > specific outside
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1790 H. T. Potter Dict. Cant & Flash Lang. Dunnakin, a necessary.
1829 P. Egan Real Life in Ireland (ed. 4) xii. 138 What is in London gaols termed a dunniken, was fixed behind the door, emitting a smell so fragrant, as to compel our..travellers to..put their noses in a parenthesis.
1843 Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 25 Mar. 3/2 There is not space sufficient whereon to erect a ‘dunniken’.
1874 Ladies' Repository July 69/1 The Language of Thieves... A sink [sic] is designated a ‘dunniken’. The phrase, ‘weeded the leather and slung it in the dunniken’, means ‘emptied the pocket-book and threw it into the sink’.
1889 Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Queensland) 8 June So long as it is in print, it is as good on a dunnekin door as on the door of a church.
1943 Horizon 8 156 The crazy dunikins, outside w.c.s listing away from the prevailing wind.
1970 H. Orton & P. M. Tilling Surv. Eng. Dial. III. ii. 575 Q[uestion]. What is your word for the old-fashioned W.C.?.. [Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex] Dunnekin.
1982 R. F. Lynn Under Lynnwood Tree 75 We built a little dunnican out in the paddock with a three by two rail.
2013 Bucks Free Press (Nexis) 18 Apr. I dread to think what filthy antics must be taking place if a portable dunnakin is required in that part of town.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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