lavvy

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noun

A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounlavvy (plural lavvies)

plural lavvies

  1. UKslangA lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

    And she doesn't have to keep going to the lavvy like poor Mr Thomas and Miss Welch and so many of them.

    2013, Eileen Dewhurst, Whoever I Am, →ISBN
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    It must be great getting up during the night and not having to put a coat on over your jammies to visit the lavvy on the half-landing – especially in the winter when it's below zero.

    2011, Robert Douglas, Whose Turn for the Stairs?, →ISBN

    When I had to go to the lavvy there I always had to use that stiff, scratchy, smelly, lavvy paper she always said she 'put for the 'young ladies' - sniff'.

    2012, Glynis Dunnitt, Hidden History, →ISBN, page 61

    Cousin Anna and other traveller kids were playing over by the lavvy, and as I ran to join them, something monumental loomed on my horizon – the lavvy roof

    2013, Jess Smith, Sookin' Berries, →ISBN

    Synonyms: bathroom

  2. UKslangA toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

    Synonyms: toilet

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

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nounA toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

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Origin

From lav (“clipped form of lavatory”) + -y (“forming affectionate diminutives”).

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APA

lavvy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lavvy

MLA

“lavvy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lavvy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lavvy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lavvy.

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