loo

Meaning

Noun

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

Intj

A cry to urge on hunting dogs.

Verb

To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.

Verb

1. (transitive) To beat in the card game lanterloo.
2. To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
3. (dialectal, figuratively) To pay any penalty to any community.

Synonyms

toilet

🚽

lavatory

lav

bathroom

can

john

restroom

🚻

water closet

bog

privy

washroom

WC

🚾

W.C.

bath

🛀

cloakroom

closet

convenience

toilette

bathroom

washroom

restroom

🚻

privy

bog

boudoir

dressing table

jakes

latrine

pisser

powder room

rest room

throne

toilets

netty

W.C

toilet facility

the ladies’ room/the mens’ room

the ladies’/the gents’

morning toilet

pissery

nettie

Translations

Klo

🚽

gabinetto

🗄️

Klosett

🚽

αποχωρητήριο

Toilette

🚽

Abort

🚽

τουαλέτα

toilettes

Lokus

🚽

Abtritt

vàter

bagno

🛀

μπάνιο

salle de bain

privaat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/luː/

Etymology

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 name-card was placed on the door to the lavatory, prompting the other guests to begin speaking of "going to Lady Louisa".