Meanings
present singular third person does one's easement · participle present doing one's easement · past did one's easement · participle past done one's easement
- datedeuphemisticTo ease one's bowels: to defecate.
He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayers.
2013, Shirley McKay, “A Merry Month”, in Friend & Foe (A Hew Cullen Mystery), Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBNSynonyms: see Thesaurus:defecate
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo ease one's bowels: to defecate.
Origin
From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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