potty

plural potties

1. A chamber pot.

   Synonyms: chamber pot

2. A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.

   If you just let him know you want him to go on the potty, or anything, he's miles away.

   1940, William Carlos Williams, In the Money

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   Mothers very often make the baby and themselves unhappy by setting the child on the potty every hour.

   1949, Edith Buxbaum, Your Child Makes Sense: A Guidebook for Parents

3. childishhumorousAny other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.

   Synonyms: toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom

present singular third person potties · participle present pottying · participle past pottied · past pottied

1. childishintransitiveSynonym of go potty.

   If anybody needs to potty, do it now before we go.

   Synonyms: go potty

comparative pottier · superlative pottiest

1. informalInsane.

   The noise that the neighbour's kids were making was driving Fred potty.

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   It’s all very well for the Warden to talk about an open mind, but we shall all feel perfectly ghastly wondering what other people are thinking about us, and whether our own conversation doesn’t sound a little potty. It’s the pottiness, you know, that’s so awful.

   1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

2. golfEasy to pot the ball on.

   The Eastbourne Green is by no means a " potty " one, and happily belies its appearance.

   1890, Golf...: A Weekly Record of "ye Royal and Auncient" Game

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   "A potty little nine-hole affair at a hydro in the Midlands. My cousins stay there. Always will. Not but what the fourth and the seventh holes take some doing. You could manage it, though," he said encouragingly.

   1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon