dunnekin

English

Alternative forms

• dunegan, dunnakin, dunikin, dunniken, dunnyken

Etymology

From the addition of kin or ken, a pejorative form of house, to some form of danna, an obsolete slang for shit.

Noun

dunnekin (plural dunnekins)

1. (archaic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

Usage notes

Originally English cant or dialect but now more common in Scottish, Australian, and New Zealand English.

Synonyms

• dunny; see also Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

• dunny

References

• "Danna" in James Camden Hotten's Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day (1859).
• "Dunegan" in Francis Grose's A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811).
• "dunny, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1972), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• dunniken