单词 | dunny |
释义 | dunnyn.2 Scottish. A cellar or underground passage, esp. in a tenement building. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > underground room or cellar undercroft1395 vault1396 cellar?a1400 siler1548 crypta1563 hypogee1656 hypogeum1706 souterrain1733 favissa1736 cellar room1743 undervaulting1823 serdab1842 semi-basement1905 dunny1906 1906 T. P.'s Weekly Christmas No. 20/2 Flat on flat it rose for fourteen storeys, poverty in its dunnies (as they called its cellars), poverty in its attics. 1947 Forward 4 Jan. 3 Broken-down sewage system which periodically overflows into the dunnies and back-courts. 1996 A. C. Lillie in A. Carruthers Sc. Home 66 This passageway was that territory which every tenement child knew to be haunted—not only by all sorts of bogey-men, but also by the phantoms of mice, rats and cats which had died down in the ‘Dunny’. 2007 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 7 Oct. 38/2 The action took place up a dunny off Sauchiehall Street. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dunnyn.3 Australian and New Zealand slang. A toilet; esp. an outside toilet, usually without plumbing; a privy, an outhouse.Recorded earliest in dunny can n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > specific outside piss-house1665 dunnekin1790 earth closet1863 garden house1888 dunny1924 long drop1963 1924 Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, Austral.) 10 Sept. 39/7 Every man Who won't pay for his rubbish tin Or dirty dunny can. 1933 N. Lindsay Saturdee iii. 47 Who kidded he wasn't home; only hidin' in the dunny? 1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl i. iii. 19 She delighted in giving cheek to the boys and taking refuge in the girls' dunny. 1985 J. Frame Envoy from Mirror City 167 I..looked out along the path to the cypress tree and the old dunny with its dunny roses spilling in a mass of white buds over the corrugated tin-hat roof. 2013 C. Tsiolkas Barracuda (2014) 187 You want a wank, do you, Kelly?.. Not here, mate, that's filthy. Go do it in the dunny if you have to. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, as dunny door, dunny paper, etc. ΚΠ 1966 B. Hesling Stir up this Stew 75 After partially unbuttoning in the sun he closed his dunny door on us. 1984 Metro (Auckland) Mar. 16/2 The dunny doors were marked in Samoan. 1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 59 In the toilet cubicle, I camouflaged the seat in layers of dunny paper. 2014 L. Lewandowski Night of Seventh Dream x. 88 The sun..lulled her to sleep, slumped against the dunny wall. b. With reference to the cleaning or removal of waste from a toilet or toilets, as dunny cart, dunny man, etc. ΚΠ 1956 Argus (Melbourne) 14 July One young wife..refers airily to the ‘dunny cart man’, who..was until recently a familiar sight in the streets. 1962 H. Porter Bachelor's Children 280 Early in December, one found a card on the lavatory seat: Enjoy Christmas as best you can, And don't forget the dunny man. 1991 S. Winchester Pacific (1992) 135 Lower even than the dunny man, I was—a real larrikin, a wild bushman. 2014 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 6 Sept. 41 His novel's storyline ends hilariously with a runaway dunny cart dumping its contents on a gathering of dignitaries. C2. dunny can n. a large removable metal can provided with a wooden seat serving as the receptacle in an outside toilet. ΚΠ 1924dunny can [see main sense]. 1967 M. Clark in Speaking out of Turn (1997) 67 I take it he meant that all we can offer for the ‘plenary inspiration’ of mankind is the contents of the good old Aussie dunny-can. 1982 Canberra Times 5 Dec. 14/2 The recycling of old ‘dunny cans’ to protect young trees from the ravages of stock and dryness. 2007 Scots Mag. Mar. 296/2 In a open shed at the back there was a cupboard-sized room shared with the nearest neighbours, inside which was the ‘dunny can’ that was their toilet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dunnyadj.1 Dull greyish-brown in colour. Also more generally: dark, dusky. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > dull brown duneOE dunned1430 dunnisha1529 dunnya1529 drab-coloured1715 drab1775 a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 400 I were skynnes of conny, That causeth I loke so donny. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 28 Lime made of a dunny gray stone. 1715 W. Lancaster Let. 16 Jan. in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 436 All my Paris Editions are on paper of the same Dunny Colour. 1773 M. Browne Angling Sports 24 Fawns that haunt the dunny woods by night. 1819 T. Thompson in Coll. Songs, Comic & Satirical (1827) 10 Tyneside seem'd clad wiv bonny ha's An furnaces sae dunny. 1951 J. Frame Lagoon 38 The house with..its dunny roses on the trellis-work. 1997 R. Denfield Kill Body, Head will Fall xii. 145 The distant mountains seem bereft of growth, the dunny color of sage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dunnyadj.2n.1 Now English regional (southern and south midlands). A. adj.2 (a) Deaf, hard of hearing (cf. dunch adj. 1a). (b) Having diminished mental faculties; slow to understand; dim-witted (cf. dunch adj. 3).Sometimes the two senses are difficult to distinguish from one another, or are both present, referring to a general apparent lack of ability to comprehend or to diminished faculties generally; see, for example, quots. a1791, 1826. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of ear > disordered hearing > [adjective] > hard of hearing hard of hearing1564 thick listed1579 deafish1611 dunny1708 1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Dunny, somewhat deaf, deafish. 1775 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 97 My eyesight grew dimmer, my ears more dunny. a1791 F. Grose Olio (1796) 105 What the devil are you dunny? won't you give me no answer? 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iii. 66 My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. 1858 C. Selby Boots at Swan ii. 22 Ha, ha, ha! Of all the ridiculous things, to take me for a housebreaker, and old dunny head for my confederate. Ha, ha, ha! 1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 35/2 She had all her wits, but were a bit dunny at the last. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 60 Dunny, stupid. (a) A stupid, dim-witted person; an idiot. (b) A deaf person. Obsolete.Sometimes the two senses overlap: see note at sense A. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 doddypoll1401 dastardc1440 dotterel1440 dullardc1440 wantwit1449 jobardc1475 nollc1475 assheada1500 mulea1500 dull-pate15.. peak1509 dulbert?a1513 doddy-patec1525 noddypolla1529 hammer-head1532 dull-head?1534 capon1542 dolt1543 blockhead1549 cod's head1549 mome1550 grout-head1551 gander1553 skit-brains?1553 blocka1556 calfa1556 tomfool1565 dunce1567 druggard1569 cobble1570 dummel1570 Essex calf1573 jolthead1573 hardhead1576 beetle-head1577 dor-head1577 groutnoll1578 grosshead1580 thickskin1582 noddyship?1589 jobbernowl1592 beetle-brain1593 Dorbel1593 oatmeal-groat1594 loggerhead1595 block-pate1598 cittern-head1598 noddypoop1598 dorbellist1599 numps1599 dor1601 stump1602 ram-head1605 look-like-a-goose1606 ruff1606 clod1607 turf1607 asinego1609 clot-poll1609 doddiea1611 druggle1611 duncecomb1612 ox-head1613 clod-polla1616 dulman1615 jolterhead1620 bullhead1624 dunderwhelpa1625 dunderhead1630 macaroona1631 clod-patea1635 clota1637 dildo1638 clot-pate1640 stupid1640 clod-head1644 stub1644 simpletonian1652 bottle-head1654 Bœotiana1657 vappe1657 lackwit1668 cudden1673 plant-animal1673 dolt-head1679 cabbage head1682 put1688 a piece of wood1691 ouphe1694 dunderpate1697 numbskull1697 leather-head1699 nocky1699 Tom Cony1699 mopus1700 bluff-head1703 clod skull1707 dunny1709 dowf1722 stupe1722 gamphrel1729 gobbin?1746 duncehead1749 half-wit1755 thick-skull1755 jackass1756 woollen-head1756 numbhead1757 beef-head1775 granny1776 stupid-head1792 stunpolla1794 timber-head1794 wether heada1796 dummy1796 noghead1800 staumrel1802 muttonhead1803 num1807 dummkopf1809 tumphya1813 cod's head and shoulders1820 stoopid1823 thick-head1824 gype1825 stob1825 stookiea1828 woodenhead1831 ning-nong1832 log-head1834 fat-head1835 dunderheadism1836 turnip1837 mudhead1838 donkey1840 stupex1843 cabbage1844 morepork1845 lubber-head1847 slowpoke1847 stupiditarian1850 pudding-head1851 cod's head and shoulders1852 putty head1853 moke1855 mullet-head1855 pothead1855 mug1857 thick1857 boodle1862 meathead1863 missing link1863 half-baked1866 lunk1867 turnip-head1869 rummy1872 pumpkin-head1876 tattie1879 chump1883 dully1883 cretin1884 lunkhead1884 mopstick1886 dumbhead1887 peanut head1891 pie-face1891 doughbakea1895 butt-head1896 pinhead1896 cheesehead1900 nyamps1900 box head1902 bonehead1903 chickenhead1903 thickwit1904 cluck1906 boob1907 John1908 mooch1910 nitwit1910 dikkop1913 goop1914 goofus1916 rumdum1916 bone dome1917 moron1917 oik1917 jabroni1919 dumb-bell1920 knob1920 goon1921 dimwit1922 ivory dome1923 stone jug1923 dingleberry1924 gimp1924 bird brain1926 jughead1926 cloth-head1927 dumb1928 gazook1928 mouldwarp1928 ding-dong1929 stupido1929 mook1930 sparrow-brain1930 knobhead1931 dip1932 drip1932 epsilon1932 bohunkus1933 Nimrod1933 dumbass1934 zombie1936 pea-brain1938 knot-head1940 schlump1941 jarhead1942 Joe Soap1943 knuckle-head1944 nong1944 lame-brain1945 gobshite1946 rock-head1947 potato head1948 jerko1949 turkey1951 momo1953 poop-head1955 a right one1958 bam1959 nong-nong1959 dickhead1960 dumbo1960 Herbert1960 lamer1961 bampot1962 dipshit1963 bamstick1965 doofus1965 dick1966 pillock1967 zipperhead1967 dipstick1968 thickie1968 poephol1969 yo-yo1970 doof1971 cockhead1972 nully1973 thicko1976 wazzock1976 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 no-brainer1979 jerkwad1980 woodentop1981 dickwad1983 dough ball1983 dickweed1984 bawheid1985 numpty1985 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 knob-end1989 Muppet1989 dingus1997 dicksack1999 eight ball- 1709 Brit. Apollo 1–6 July Should a School-boy do so, he'd be whip'd for a Dunny. 1792 Lady's Mag. May 244/2 I have heard say the old dunny has got a very pretty daughter! 1853 J. R. Planché Once upon Time there were Two Kings (BL Add. MS 52944 O) f. 12 Carp. But I can't hear a word you say—I am stone deaf. BrutusDeaf!—hang the stupid dunny! 1906 J. L. Hoxie Kindergarten Story Bk. 1 Oh! you are so stupid. That is not the way. Let me show you how, you dunny! DerivativesΚΠ 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Dunnily, deafishly. ˈdunniness n. the state of being deaf or hard of hearing. ΚΠ 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Dunniness, deafishness. 1783 J. Mulso Let. 12 Jan. in Lett. to G. White of Selborne (1907) 310 A Deafness on one Side, or rather Dunniness & Stupefaction, almost made me crazy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.21906n.31924adj.1a1529adj.2n.11708 |
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