Meanings
- UKderogatoryobsoleterarethieves' cantDerogatory name for Ireland: an island and country in northwestern Europe.
A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland's wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Planets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.)
2008, Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Facts on File1 more example
'I thought you would have preferred to have been with them in that stinking urinal of the planets, looking for bog-oranges.' Kempe's sympathy towards the plight of the Irish was well known, and he had no sympathisers here tonight.
2015 April 18, Graham Sutherland, Conspiracy of Fate, Knowle Villa Books, →ISBN
Origin
In allusion to the frequent rainy weather.
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Urinal of the Planets. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Urinal%20of%20the%20Planets
“Urinal of the Planets.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Urinal%20of%20the%20Planets. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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