bathroomn.

Brit.

/ˈbɑːθruːm/,

/ˈbaθruːm/,

/ˈbɑːθrʊm/,

/ˈbaθrʊm/, U.S.

/ˈbæθˌrum/,

/ˈbæθˌrʊm/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bath n.¹, room n.¹

Etymology: < bath n.¹ + room n.¹With the development of sense 2 compare lavatory n. 5b, toilet n. 9a.

1. A room containing facilities for bathing; (in early use) a room or building provided with communal bathing facilities; (now usually) a room for private bathing, esp. in a house, containing a bath or shower, and typically also a washbasin and toilet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > place for bathing > bathroom

bathing-rooma1684

bathroom1685

private bath1771

bath1922

wet room1982

1685 E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Europe (ed. 2) 22 The Anti-Chamber is very large, the Bath-Room capacious, and high-Arched.

1724 W. Stukeley Itinerarium Curiosum iii. 52 The bath-room all of marbl [sic] curiously wrought.

1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 99 An empty Russian dwelling, and near it a bath-room.

1819 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 15 247 When a patient is brought to the House of Recovery, he is immediately taken to the bath-room, stript, washed, and conveyed to bed.

1845 F. Metcalfe tr. W. A. Becker Charicles 124/2 Water descends upon the bathers in a shower, from certain heads of animals, fixed to the capitals of the pillars of the bath-room.

1888 J. M. Barrie When Man's Single xv. 242 What are politics when the pipes in the bathroom burst?

1924 W. S. Churchill Let. 17 Apr. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xii. 281 I have just had my bath in your de luxe bathroom. I hope you have no amour propre about it!

1958 I. Fleming Dr. No xiii. 158 There was everything in the bathroom—Floris Lime bath essence for men and Guerlain bathcubes for women.

2006 R. Everett Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins viii. 77 There was a tiny kitchen, an even tinier bathroom with a bath so small one had to perform Houdiniesque contortions to get in.

2. Originally and chiefly North American. A room containing a toilet or toilets, usually with facilities for handwashing, and sometimes also a bath or shower.Now the standard word in North America for a room containing a toilet, regardless of whether or not the room also contains bathing facilities. See also restroom n., washroom n. 2. to go to the bathroom: = to go to the toilet at toilet n. Phrases 1; cf. go v. 31a(b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun]

gongOE

privy?c1225

room-housec1275

chamber foreignc1300

wardrobea1325

privy chamberc1325

foreignc1390

siegec1400

stool1410

jakes1432

house of easementa1438

kocayc1440

siege-hole1440

siege-house1440

privy house1463

withdraught1493

draught1530

shield1535

bench-hole1542

common house1542

stool1542

jakes house1547

boggard1552

house of office?1560

purging place1577

little house1579

issue1588

Ajax1596

draught-house1597

private1600

necessary house1612

vault1617

longhouse1622

latrine1623

necessary1633

commonsa1641

gingerbread officea1643

boghouse1644

cloaca1645

passage-house1646

retreat1653

shithouse1659

closet of ease1662

garderobe1680

backside1704

office1727

bog?1731

house of ease1734

cuz-john1735

easing-chair1771

backhouse1800

outhouse1819

netty1825

petty1848

seat of ease1850

closet1869

bathroom1883

crapper1927

lat1927

shouse1941

biffy1942

shitholec1947

toot1965

shitter1967

woodshed1974

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory

closet1496

water closet1736

water closet1747

throne room1787

W.C.1815

netty1825

convenience1841

Johnny1847

lavabo1852

restrooma1856

small room1858

cloakroom1865

lavatory1874

bathroom1883

toilet1886

can1900

place1902

lav1913

washroom1919

head1920

lavvy1922

dike1923

smallest room1930

John1931

khazi1932

loo1940

biffy1942

Wa1953

shitcan1954

commode1958

cludgie1961

1883 Hahnemannian Monthly Oct. 606 The mother got up to go to the bath-room, and fell in a faint and died.

1888 Med. Advance 21 170 In his frequent visits to the bath room at night he was uncertain in his movements in the darkness.

1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) iv. 108 Julian wanted to go to the bathroom after the dinner party stood up, and on his way to the men's locker room he had to pass Mrs. Gorman's table.

1960 Times 14 Sept. 12/7 It is necessary [in the United States]..to realize just what a rest room or bathroom is. I did find it odd..when told that a small day school..had a bathroom on every floor.

1972 D. Wolf Foul! i. 12 He slept through an entire weekend, rising only to go to the bathroom.

1989 T. Bodett End of Road ii. xvii. 177 When you were in the bathroom that battle-ax behind the counter said something about my dog.

2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 2 Oct. d2/1 Brick avoids the school bathrooms in fear of getting a swirlie.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1841 Morning Post 5 Oct. The whole of the household and bathroom furniture..may be taken at a price.

1881 Edinb. Evening News 13 Jan. After taking a walk one morning he hung himself from the bathroom door.

1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 41/2 It can be used as mortar to hold loose tiles in place in the bathroom floor or wall.

1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surveys (1987) ii. 391 Again I watched the snowballing from the bathroom window.

1945 Your Child from One to Six (U.S. Dept. Labor) 45/2 At first, for example, a low chair may be better than a small seat fitted over the regular bathroom seat, which is so high the child may be afraid of falling.

1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes ii. 9 It would show on the bathroom scales at the end of the week, but who cared?

1959 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 1224/1 Vitrous china Bathroom Fixtures.

1962 J. Braine Life at Top xiii. 144 The bathroom cabinet crammed with eau-de-Cologne and talcum and bath salts.

1980 B. Plain Random Winds viii. 113 Water rushed in the bathroom shower, fogging the mirror on the open door so that she saw herself in a blur.

2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 166 Again I search in the reflection of the bathroom mirror for shame, embarrassment, something.

C2.

bathroom break n. chiefly North American = toilet break n. at toilet n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1961 Time 22 Sept. 111/1 GM was denying workers this inalienable right by refusing to put enough extra men on the line to allow for the bathroom breaks.

1986 Computerworld (Nexis) 10 Nov. 17 A report..disclosing that keystrokes, bathroom breaks and other activities of VDT users are increasingly being monitored by computers.

2001 B. Weeks Curling for Dummies iii. 35 You might walk off the ice..—like when you need an emergency bathroom break!

bathroom cleaner n. (a) a person employed to clean bathrooms; (b) a product, esp. a chemical cleaner, used to clean bathrooms and bathroom fittings.

ΚΠ

1873 Hastings & St. Leonards Herald 20 Dec. 6/3 Here he was assisted in his duties by a prisoner who acts as bath-room cleaner.

1910 New Castle (Pa.) News 18 Jan. We have the best bathroom cleaner on the market... Comes in paste form.

1919 Boston Post 13 Sept. 17/6 Maids—Experienced chambermaid and bathroom cleaner; best of wages and pleasant surroundings.

1966 N.Y. Times 8 July 52 Crew Instant Bathroom Cleaner..is a white spray disinfectant that foams as it cleans.

2007 V. Smith Clean x. 329 Well-packaged cleansing products such as liquid detergents, spray polish, bathroom cleaners..began to fill the post-war house with perfume.

bathroom humour n. crude humour centring chiefly on bodily functions; = toilet humour n. at toilet n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > humour > specific unsavoury

bathroom humour1935

lavatory humour1935

toilet humour1942

potty humour1969

1935 Biddeford Daily Jrnl. 17 May 4/1 The editors of the Chicago monthly [sc. Esquire] have learned just how far they can carry their melange of pseudo-intellectualism and bathroom humor.

1981 Times 6 Oct. 11/1 There are always people who are afraid of the scatalogical [sic], of what we call ‘bathroom humour’.

2013 Vanity Fair Jan. 38/1 It was once an inviolable platitude that the English still reveled and excelled in firing off a gassy round of the old Chaucerian gusto, appreciating bathroom humor and saucy bits far more than we tight-bungholed Yanks with our Puritan consciences and caressable toilet paper.

bathroom stall n. North American a toilet cubicle in a public or communal lavatory.

ΚΠ

1965 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. 32/3 Included in the price are a..bathroom stall, a water closet, fixtures and heater.

1990 R. M. in C. Carlsson & M. Leger Bad Attitude 68 I was blowing my nose in the bathroom stall.

2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 8 May ii. 5/2 We clamored for breast-pumping rooms in our offices and usually settled for stinky bathroom stalls.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bathroom
释义	bathroomn. Brit. /ˈbɑːθruːm/, /ˈbaθruːm/, /ˈbɑːθrʊm/, /ˈbaθrʊm/, U.S. /ˈbæθˌrum/, /ˈbæθˌrʊm/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bath n.¹, room n.¹ Etymology: < bath n.¹ + room n.¹With the development of sense 2 compare lavatory n. 5b, toilet n. 9a. 1. A room containing facilities for bathing; (in early use) a room or building provided with communal bathing facilities; (now usually) a room for private bathing, esp. in a house, containing a bath or shower, and typically also a washbasin and toilet. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > place for bathing > bathroom bathing-rooma1684 bathroom1685 private bath1771 bath1922 wet room1982 1685 E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Europe (ed. 2) 22 The Anti-Chamber is very large, the Bath-Room capacious, and high-Arched. 1724 W. Stukeley Itinerarium Curiosum iii. 52 The bath-room all of marbl [sic] curiously wrought. 1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 99 An empty Russian dwelling, and near it a bath-room. 1819 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 15 247 When a patient is brought to the House of Recovery, he is immediately taken to the bath-room, stript, washed, and conveyed to bed. 1845 F. Metcalfe tr. W. A. Becker Charicles 124/2 Water descends upon the bathers in a shower, from certain heads of animals, fixed to the capitals of the pillars of the bath-room. 1888 J. M. Barrie When Man's Single xv. 242 What are politics when the pipes in the bathroom burst? 1924 W. S. Churchill Let. 17 Apr. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xii. 281 I have just had my bath in your de luxe bathroom. I hope you have no amour propre about it! 1958 I. Fleming Dr. No xiii. 158 There was everything in the bathroom—Floris Lime bath essence for men and Guerlain bathcubes for women. 2006 R. Everett Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins viii. 77 There was a tiny kitchen, an even tinier bathroom with a bath so small one had to perform Houdiniesque contortions to get in. 2. Originally and chiefly North American. A room containing a toilet or toilets, usually with facilities for handwashing, and sometimes also a bath or shower.Now the standard word in North America for a room containing a toilet, regardless of whether or not the room also contains bathing facilities. See also restroom n., washroom n. 2. to go to the bathroom: = to go to the toilet at toilet n. Phrases 1; cf. go v. 31a(b). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] gongOE privy?c1225 room-housec1275 chamber foreignc1300 wardrobea1325 privy chamberc1325 foreignc1390 siegec1400 stool1410 jakes1432 house of easementa1438 kocayc1440 siege-hole1440 siege-house1440 privy house1463 withdraught1493 draught1530 shield1535 bench-hole1542 common house1542 stool1542 jakes house1547 boggard1552 house of office?1560 purging place1577 little house1579 issue1588 Ajax1596 draught-house1597 private1600 necessary house1612 vault1617 longhouse1622 latrine1623 necessary1633 commonsa1641 gingerbread officea1643 boghouse1644 cloaca1645 passage-house1646 retreat1653 shithouse1659 closet of ease1662 garderobe1680 backside1704 office1727 bog?1731 house of ease1734 cuz-john1735 easing-chair1771 backhouse1800 outhouse1819 netty1825 petty1848 seat of ease1850 closet1869 bathroom1883 crapper1927 lat1927 shouse1941 biffy1942 shitholec1947 toot1965 shitter1967 woodshed1974 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory closet1496 water closet1736 water closet1747 throne room1787 W.C.1815 netty1825 convenience1841 Johnny1847 lavabo1852 restrooma1856 small room1858 cloakroom1865 lavatory1874 bathroom1883 toilet1886 can1900 place1902 lav1913 washroom1919 head1920 lavvy1922 dike1923 smallest room1930 John1931 khazi1932 loo1940 biffy1942 Wa1953 shitcan1954 commode1958 cludgie1961 1883 Hahnemannian Monthly Oct. 606 The mother got up to go to the bath-room, and fell in a faint and died. 1888 Med. Advance 21 170 In his frequent visits to the bath room at night he was uncertain in his movements in the darkness. 1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) iv. 108 Julian wanted to go to the bathroom after the dinner party stood up, and on his way to the men's locker room he had to pass Mrs. Gorman's table. 1960 Times 14 Sept. 12/7 It is necessary [in the United States]..to realize just what a rest room or bathroom is. I did find it odd..when told that a small day school..had a bathroom on every floor. 1972 D. Wolf Foul! i. 12 He slept through an entire weekend, rising only to go to the bathroom. 1989 T. Bodett End of Road ii. xvii. 177 When you were in the bathroom that battle-ax behind the counter said something about my dog. 2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 2 Oct. d2/1 Brick avoids the school bathrooms in fear of getting a swirlie. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1841 Morning Post 5 Oct. The whole of the household and bathroom furniture..may be taken at a price. 1881 Edinb. Evening News 13 Jan. After taking a walk one morning he hung himself from the bathroom door. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 41/2 It can be used as mortar to hold loose tiles in place in the bathroom floor or wall. 1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surveys (1987) ii. 391 Again I watched the snowballing from the bathroom window. 1945 Your Child from One to Six (U.S. Dept. Labor) 45/2 At first, for example, a low chair may be better than a small seat fitted over the regular bathroom seat, which is so high the child may be afraid of falling. 1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes ii. 9 It would show on the bathroom scales at the end of the week, but who cared? 1959 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 1224/1 Vitrous china Bathroom Fixtures. 1962 J. Braine Life at Top xiii. 144 The bathroom cabinet crammed with eau-de-Cologne and talcum and bath salts. 1980 B. Plain Random Winds viii. 113 Water rushed in the bathroom shower, fogging the mirror on the open door so that she saw herself in a blur. 2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 166 Again I search in the reflection of the bathroom mirror for shame, embarrassment, something. C2. bathroom break n. chiefly North American = toilet break n. at toilet n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1961 Time 22 Sept. 111/1 GM was denying workers this inalienable right by refusing to put enough extra men on the line to allow for the bathroom breaks. 1986 Computerworld (Nexis) 10 Nov. 17 A report..disclosing that keystrokes, bathroom breaks and other activities of VDT users are increasingly being monitored by computers. 2001 B. Weeks Curling for Dummies iii. 35 You might walk off the ice..—like when you need an emergency bathroom break! bathroom cleaner n. (a) a person employed to clean bathrooms; (b) a product, esp. a chemical cleaner, used to clean bathrooms and bathroom fittings. ΚΠ 1873 Hastings & St. Leonards Herald 20 Dec. 6/3 Here he was assisted in his duties by a prisoner who acts as bath-room cleaner. 1910 New Castle (Pa.) News 18 Jan. We have the best bathroom cleaner on the market... Comes in paste form. 1919 Boston Post 13 Sept. 17/6 Maids—Experienced chambermaid and bathroom cleaner; best of wages and pleasant surroundings. 1966 N.Y. Times 8 July 52 Crew Instant Bathroom Cleaner..is a white spray disinfectant that foams as it cleans. 2007 V. Smith Clean x. 329 Well-packaged cleansing products such as liquid detergents, spray polish, bathroom cleaners..began to fill the post-war house with perfume. bathroom humour n. crude humour centring chiefly on bodily functions; = toilet humour n. at toilet n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > humour > specific unsavoury bathroom humour1935 lavatory humour1935 toilet humour1942 potty humour1969 1935 Biddeford Daily Jrnl. 17 May 4/1 The editors of the Chicago monthly [sc. Esquire] have learned just how far they can carry their melange of pseudo-intellectualism and bathroom humor. 1981 Times 6 Oct. 11/1 There are always people who are afraid of the scatalogical [sic], of what we call ‘bathroom humour’. 2013 Vanity Fair Jan. 38/1 It was once an inviolable platitude that the English still reveled and excelled in firing off a gassy round of the old Chaucerian gusto, appreciating bathroom humor and saucy bits far more than we tight-bungholed Yanks with our Puritan consciences and caressable toilet paper. bathroom stall n. North American a toilet cubicle in a public or communal lavatory. ΚΠ 1965 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. 32/3 Included in the price are a..bathroom stall, a water closet, fixtures and heater. 1990 R. M. in C. Carlsson & M. Leger Bad Attitude 68 I was blowing my nose in the bathroom stall. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 8 May ii. 5/2 We clamored for breast-pumping rooms in our offices and usually settled for stinky bathroom stalls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1685
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