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?
Meaning
9 senses(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
a toilet in Britain
(uncountable)The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
(uncountable)An act that prompts such a penalty.
(uncountable)A game of lanterloo.
(figuratively, uncountable)Any group of people.
(India)A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.
(US, slang)A lieutenant.
(obsolete)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.
Examples
64 sentencesWhere's the loo?
Де туалет?
ruГде туалет?
deWo ist das Klo?
She's on the loo.
Вона в туалеті.
deSie sitzt auf dem WC.
Where's the women's loo?
Де жіночий туалет?
Where's the ladies' loo?
Де жіночий туалет?
I need the loo.
Мені треба в туалет.
deIch muss mal aufs Klo.
Origin
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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