potty

English [edit]

From pot (“chamberpot”) +‎ -y (“diminutive suffix”).

potty (plural potties)

A chamber pot used by young children while learning control of their bladder and bowels.
- 1940, William Carlos Williams, In the Money:
  
  If you just let him know you want him to go on the potty, or anything, he's miles away.
- 1949, Edith Buxbaum, Your child makes sense: a guidebook for parents:
  
  Mothers very often make the baby and themselves unhappy by setting the child on the potty every hour.
(childish) A toilet bowl. Can be used as essentially a synonym of toilet or bathroom in some phrases, e.g. potty parity, potty mouth, potty humor.

children's chamberpot

potty (third-person singular simple present potties, present participle pottying, simple past and past participle pottied)

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potty (comparative pottier, superlative pottiest)

(informal) Insane.

The noise that the neighbour's kids were making was driving Fred potty.
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- Rudyard Kipling
  
  "A potty little nine-hole affair at a hydro in the Midlands. My cousins stay there. Always will. Not but what the fourth and the seventh holes take some doing. You could manage it, though," he said encouragingly.

insane — see insane