honey bucket

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English

Etymology

Compare honey pot and honey wagon (sewage trailer).

Noun

honey bucket (plural honey buckets)

  1. (euphemistic, obsolete) A chamber pot: a bucket used for urination and defecation.
    • 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 106:
      A wood stove had been fashioned from a fifty-five gallon drum, matching the design of the honey bucket in the outhouse, the fish smoker on the riverbank and, its barrell sliced diagonally and mounted on a nose wheel, the wheelbarrow in the garden.

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