dunny can

noun

A toilet.

Meanings

noundunny can (plural dunny cans)

plural dunny cans · alternative dunnycan

  1. AustraliacolloquialA toilet.

    Empty your bladder into the stinking mysteries of the dunnycan.

    1985, Peter Carey, llywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 312
    1 more example

    Looking after chooks and feeding dogs were bad enough, but having to empty the dunny can? That was the final straw!

    2004, Alan Greenhalgh, Gathers No Moss

Origin

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Chicago

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