loo
A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecationA lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
» Where's the loo?
Wo ist das Klo?
Wo ist der Lokus?
Где туалет?
Де туалет?
Де знаходиться туалет?
Значение
значений: 9(Содружество, Ирландия, Британия)A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
(Содружество, Ирландия, Британия)A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
a toilet in Britain
(неисчисляемое)The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
(неисчисляемое)An act that prompts such a penalty.
(неисчисляемое)A game of lanterloo.
(переносно, неисчисляемое)Any group of people.
(Индия)A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.
(США, сленг)A lieutenant.
(устаревшее)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.
Примеры
предложений: 64Where's the loo?
Где туалет?
ukДе туалет?
deWo ist das Klo?
We've still got some loo roll.
deWir haben noch Klopapier.
We've still got some loo paper.
deWir haben noch Klopapier.
He's on the loo all day.
deEr sitzt den ganzen Tag auf der Toilette.
I'm just popping to the loo.
deIch geh’ mal kurz aufs Klo.
Происхождение
Uncertain, although usually derived in some way from Waterloo, the site of Wellington's 18Uncertain, 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".
Clipped form of lanterloo.
From French loup (“wolf; mask, eyemask”). Doublet of lobo, lupus, and wolf.
From Hindi लू (lū), ultmately from Sanskrit उल्का (ulkā, “flame”).
Clipped form of lieutenant.
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