loo
Significado (Inglés)
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- A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
Conceptos
poceta de flujo
watercló
W. C.
W.C.
Inodoro
WC
cuartos de aseo
Sinónimos
W.C.
W.C
toilet facility
the ladies’ room/the mens’ room
the ladies’/the gents’
morning toilet
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/luː/
Etimología (Inglés)
Uncertain, although usually derived in some way from Waterloo, the site of Wellington's 1815 victory over Napoleon, likely via a pun based on water closet. Other suggested derivations include corruptions of French l’eau (“water”), lieu (“place”), lieux d’aisances (“'places of convenience': a lavatory”), lieu à l’anglaise (“'English place': a British-style lavatory”), bordalou (“a diminutive chamber pot”) or gardez l’eau (“'mind the water'”), via Scots gardyloo, formerly used in Edinburgh while emptying chamber pots out of windows; the supposed use of "Room 100" as the lavatory in Continental hotels; a popularisation of lew, a regional corruption of lee (“downwind”), in reference to shepherds' privies or the former use of beakheads on that side of the ship for urination and defecation; or a clipped form of the name of the unpopular 19th-century Countess of Lichfield Lady Harriett Georgiana Louisa Hamilton Anson, who was the subject of an 1867 prank whereby her bedroom's namecard was placed on the door to the lavatory, prompting the other guests to begin speaking of "going to Lady Louisa".
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