dunny
nounColloquial
A Australian English slang term. Browse all Australian slang.
What it means
A toilet, originally an outdoor one. Slightly rustic and slightly old-fashioned, but universally understood.
In use
The dunny's round the back.
Busier than a one-armed bricklayer in Baghdad — or emptier than a dunny at a wedding.
Note: Extended comic similes are a genre of their own in Australian speech.
Where it comes from
From British dialect dunnekin, an outdoor privy. Survived in Australia long after dying out in Britain.