Meanings
plural honey buckets
- euphemisticobsoleteA chamber pot: a bucket used for urination and defecation.
A wood stove had been fashioned from a fifty-five gallon drum, matching the design of the honey bucket in the outhouse, the fish smoker on the riverbank and, its barrel sliced diagonally and mounted on a nose wheel, the wheelbarrow in the garden.
1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 106Synonyms: chamber pot
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA chamber pot: a bucket used for urination and defecation.
Origin
Compare honey pot and honey wagon (“sewage trailer”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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