terlet

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Noun

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terlet (plural terlets)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of toilet.
    • 2011 May 10, Roy Blount, Jr., Alphabetter Juice, Sarah Crichton Books, →ISBN, page 17:
      When Grace hopefully presents herself to Ralph in her new negligee, however, Ralph says he has to rejoin the boys, who are throwing him a party. But first, "I'm fulla beer. Mind if I use ya terlet?"
    • 2012 April 26, Swan Adamson, Memoirs Are Made of This, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:
      'You should have a new terlet. That's one of the old models. The new ones use less watuh.' She went back to the kitchen sink and started to feed a long flexible hose down the drain.
    • 2023 August 15, Michaele Weissman, The Rye Bread Marriage, Algonquin Books, →ISBN:
      "Didjaever see an indoor terlet?" or "Betjanever used an indoor terlet before."