Meanings
plural dunny cans · alternative dunnycan
- AustraliacolloquialA toilet.
Empty your bladder into the stinking mysteries of the dunnycan.
1985, Peter Carey, llywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 3121 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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dunny can. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dunny%20can
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