double-u

See also: double U

English

double-u (plural double-ues)

The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.
(euphemistic) The WC; the toilet.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 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.

name of the letter W, w

Arabic: دَابِلْيُو m (dabelyū), دَابْلِيُو m (dabliyū), دوبلڤه,‎ دُوبِلِڥِه m (dubleveh)
Asturian: uve doble (ast) f
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
Esperanto: duobla vo (eo), vavo (eo)
Finnish: kaksoisvee (fi)
French: double vé (fr) m
German: We n
Greek: ντάμπλ'γιου n (ntámpl'giou)
Hawaiian: wē
Hindi: डब्ल्यू (ḍablyū)
Icelandic: tvöfalt vaff
Ido: we (io)
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Irish: wae
Italian: doppia vu f, vu doppia f
Japanese: ダブリュー (daburyū)
Korean: 더블유 (deobeuryu)
Malay: dabliu
Marathi: डबल-यू (ḍabal-yū)
Polish: wu (pl) n
Portuguese: dáblio (pt) m, duplo vê
Russian: да́бл-ю n (dábl-ju) (English), дубль-вэ́ n (dublʹ-vɛ́)
(deprecated template usage) Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дупло ве n

Roman: duplo ve n
Spanish: doble ve (es), uve doble (es) f
Swedish: dubbel-v n
Thai: ดับเบิลยู (th) (dàp-bə̂n-yuu), ดับบลิว (th) (dàp-bliu)