loo.
A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
Meaning & usage
A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
Where this word comes from
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".
A cry to urge on hunting dogs.
Where this word comes from
Clipped form of halloo.
To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.
Where this word comes from
Clipped form of halloo.
Alternative form of lanterloo: the card game.
The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
An act that prompts such a penalty.
A game of lanterloo.
Any group of people.
Where this word comes from
Clipped form of lanterloo.
To beat in the card game lanterloo.
To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
To pay any penalty to any community.
Where this word comes from
Clipped form of lanterloo.
A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.
Where this word comes from
From French loup (“wolf; mask, eyemask”). Doublet of lobo, lupus, and wolf.
A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.
Where this word comes from
From Hindi लू (lū), ultmately from Sanskrit उल्का (ulkā, “flame”).
A lieutenant.
Where this word comes from
Clipped form of lieutenant.
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