double-u

English

Alternative forms

• double U, double-U
• double you, double-you, doubleyou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌbəljuː/, /ˌdʌb.əlˈjuː/

Noun

double-u (plural double-ues)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.
2. Alternative name of the Latin-script digraph *UU*.
3. (euphemistic) The WC; the toilet.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 234:

     She would try the front door, and try the back door, and look in the windows; and once she even looked in the double-u.

Derived terms

• dubya

Descendants

• → Malay: dabel yu
• → Portuguese: dáblio, dâblio (Portugal)
• → Russian: дабл-ю (dabl-ju)
• → Tagalog: dobolyu

Translations

name of the letter W, w

• Arabic: دَابِلْيُو m (dabelyū), دَابْلِيُو m (dabliyū), دوبلڤه,‎ دُوبِلِڥِه m (dubleveh)
• Asturian: uve doble (ast) f
• Bengali: ডব্লিউ (ḍobliu)
• Burmese: ဒဗ္ဗလျူ (dabba.lyu)
• Catalan: ve doble (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Czech: dvojité vé (cs) n
• Danish: dobbelt-v n
• Dutch: wee (nl)
• Esperanto: duobla vo (eo), vavo (eo), vuo (eo), vu (eo), ĝermana vo
• Finnish: kaksoisvee (fi)
• French: double vé (fr) m
• German: We n
• Greek: ντάμπλ'γιου n (ntámpl'giou)
• Hawaiian: wē
• Hindi: डब्ल्यू (ḍablyū)
• Hungarian: dupla vé (hu)
• Icelandic: tvöfalt vaff
• Ido: we (io)
• Indonesian: we (id)
• Irish: wae
• Italian: doppia vu f, vu doppia f
• Japanese: ダブリュー (ja) (daburyū)
• Korean: 더블유 (deobeuryu)
• Malay: dabliu, dabel yu
• Marathi: डबल-यू (ḍabal-yū)
• Occitan: ve dobla f
• Polish: wu (pl) n
• Portuguese: duplo vê, dáblio (pt) m (Brazil), dâblio (Portugal)
• Russian: да́бл-ю n (dábl-ju) (English), дубль-вэ́ n (dublʹ-vɛ́)
• Spanish: doble ve (es), uve doble (es) f, dupla ve f
• Swedish: dubbel-v (sv) n
• Tagalog: dobolyu, wa (Abakada)
• Thai: ดับเบิลยู (th) (dàp-bə̂n-yuu), ดับบลิว (th) (dàp-bliu)
• Welsh: w f

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} дупло ве n

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} duplo ve n

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed