thundermug
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Noun
[edit]thundermug (plural thundermugs)
- (dated, slang) chamber pot
- 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press, published 2001, page 80:
- "The dining-room ceiling was hand-painted and the staircase gigantic, yet the royal family used porcelain washbowls and old-fashioned thundermugs".
- 2003, Mercedes Lackey/James Mallory, The Outstretched Shadow:
- "No more midnight treks to the outhouse. No more close-stools or thundermugs a feature of even the most exalted houses in Armethalieh."