subs. phr. (common).—A water-closet.

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  ENGLISH SYNONYMS.  Bog; bog-shop (or -house); cacatorium; chapel (or chapel-of-ease); coffee-shop (or -house); colfabias; crapping-castle (-case, -casa, -house, or -ken); draught-chapel; dunnakin; Forty-two; fourth; gong; House of Commons; house-of-office; jakes; letter-box; the Long (university); my aunt’s; necessary-house; quaker’s burying-ground; place (or house) -of-ease; rear; shit-house; Sir Harry; the West Central; where the Queen goes on foot (or sends nobody).

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  FRENCH SYNONYMS.  Madame Bernard; le buen-retiro (popular); chez Jules; le goguenau (gogueno or goguenot—military); le gras (thieves’: cf. BOG); le longchamps (cf. LONG); la mousserie (thieves’); le numbro cent (popular: a play on sent); le restaurant à l’envers (common); la sacristie (cf. CHAPEL).

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