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Meaning of "dunny" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DUNNY

Of obscure origin; but see dunnakin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DUNNY

dunny  [ˈdʌnɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUNNY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dunny is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DUNNY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dunny

Dunny

Dunny or dunny can is Australian slang for toilet, either the room or the specific fixture, especially an outhouse or other outdoor toilets. It is often used to specify a distinction between a flushing toilet and a non-flushing toilet. First used in print in 1952, the word is believed to be derived from the much older 'dunnakin' meaning privy.

Definition of dunny in the English dictionary

The definition of dunny in the dictionary is a cellar or basement. Other definition of dunny is an outside lavatory.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DUNNY


Ballymoney
ˌbælɪˈmʌnɪ
bunny
ˈbʌnɪ
funny
ˈfʌnɪ
gunny
ˈɡʌnɪ
honey
ˈhʌnɪ
money
ˈmʌnɪ
old-money
əʊld ˈmʌnɪ
punny
ˈpʌnɪ
runny
ˈrʌnɪ
sonny
ˈsʌnɪ
Sunni
ˈsʌnɪ
sunny
ˈsʌnɪ
tannie
ˈtʌnɪ
Tunney
ˈtʌnɪ
tunny
ˈtʌnɪ
unfunny
ʌnˈfʌnɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUNNY

dunnage
dunnakin
dunnart
dunned
dunner
dunness
dunnest
dunnies
dunniewassal
dunning
dunning letter
dunnish
dunnite
dunno
dunnock
dunny budgie

WORDS THAT END LIKE DUNNY

a pretty penny
danny
dust bunny
Easter bunny
granny
gym bunny
jenny
johnny
jungle bunny
Kenny
long-fin tunny
nanny
not a happy bunny
penny
seacunny
ski bunny
skinny
snow bunny
tranny
unsunny

Synonyms and antonyms of dunny in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DUNNY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dunny» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dunny

Translation of «dunny» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DUNNY

Find out the translation of dunny to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dunny from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dunny» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

dunny
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dunny
570 millions of speakers

English

dunny
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dunny
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

dunny
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Dunny
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dunny
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dunny
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dunny
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dunny
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dunny
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

地下室
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dunny
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dunny
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Dunny
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dunny
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तपकिरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dunny
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Dunny
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dunny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Dunny
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Dunny
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Dunny
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Dunny
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

dunny
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

dunny
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dunny

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUNNY»

The term «dunny» is regularly used and occupies the 92.472 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DUNNY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dunny» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dunny» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dunny

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUNNY»

Discover the use of dunny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dunny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Dunny Man: Taking Care of Business
This book will help preserve them and shed some light on an era when no matter where you stood in life, when nature called almost everyone stood or sat in a small building somewhere in the backyard.
John D. Gardner, Small Back Room, The, 2009
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In Safe Hands: True Stories about the Men and Women of ...
receptive to Dunny's interest and was suggestive of a few things herself. I couldn't believe this conversation. If anyone else talked to a passenger (or anyone else) this way, they would be fired. Dunny and this female passenger went on talking ...
Michael H. Cunningham, 2009
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Structural and Functional Relationships in Prokaryotes
Microbial Cell-Cell Interactions. American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, D.C. 32. Dunny, G.M. and S.C. Winans. 1999. Bacterial life: Neither lonely nor boring. In Cell- Cell Signaling in Bacteria (G.M. Dunny and S.C. Winans, eds.) ...
Larry Barton, 2005
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The Lingo Dictionary: Of Favourite Australian Words and Phrases
If you wish that someone's good luck would change for the worse you may say I hope your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down. If you are out of luck you may exclaim if it was raining palaces I'd be hit on the head by the dunny ...
John Miller, 2011
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Dunny
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dunny or dunny can is Australian slang for toilet, either the room or the specific fixture, especially an outhouse or other outdoor toilets.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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The Twinning Verse Three: The Song of the Seraphim
Mya noticed Dunny's eyes slant toward the ground and his expression changed slightly, as though he was holding something back. “What is it Dunny?” Looking up at Mya, Dunny glanced around the room, still unwilling to breech the subject ...
Justin R. Cary, 2012
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Midge
This was preferable to the torn up newspaper used in Mum's sister's dunny. Their dunny was not scarey because they lived in town and it wasn't too far from the house but you had to use newspaper and sprinkle a tin of sawdust in when you ...
Marjorie Abell, 2014
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Where the Line Bleeds
Christophe remembered that Joshua had mimicked Dunny, had wrestled with his cousin chest to chest under the goal. He had learned to be the big man on the inside to Christophe's squirrelly point guard. By the twins' senior year, they were ...
Jesmyn Ward, 2008
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Panhandle
Before I could spur Dunny toward the steer he was already leaping forward, ears pinned flat. Dunny was locked on to him, and in two strides he had a neck past him. The yearling tried to stop and suck back to the right. Dunny's butt dropped out ...
Brett Cogburn, 2012
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Phraseology and Culture in English
The one striking exception is iconoclastic: the rather frequent idiomatic references to the country dunny (or just dunny) i.e. 'privy'. In the usual configuration of buildings on a farm, the dunny stood apart from the main dwelling, a small shed on ...
Paul Skandera, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUNNY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dunny is used in the context of the following news items.
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Marc Hinton: All Blacks test against Samoa at Apia Park 91 years in …
But one very important one that demands they come out and flush all those meaningless excuses down the dunny. This is a test match that has ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
2
Abbott And Shorten Equally As Shit, Hit Record Low In Approval …
Or is that these two are shitter than a collapsed drop dunny? Abbott. Shorten. It's an impossible choice. According to the polls: What's wrong ... «Pedestrian TV, Jul 15»
3
Online TV innovation like Global Mode stifled by big broadcasters …
I'm no rugby head but I enjoy an epic game and when it's your home team and they've bounced back from the dunny of despair to the tower of ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
4
Hamilton re-establishes status-quo in FP3
Whilst it was hot and dunny yesterday, strong winds caused problems for many already struggling for grip. Unfortunately, though cooler today, ... «pitpass.com, Jul 15»
5
Kick Back And Cool Out To DJ Jaycee And Applejac's 'CT2: The …
Enter DJ Jaycee and Applejac to the rescue as they don their aliases, Dunny Crockett and Reekardo Tubbz, for part two of their Miami ... «UPROXX, Jul 15»
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RODEO OF THE OZARKS Lowe Aims For 14th straight National …
Will Lowe, Canyon, Texas, rides Miss Dunny Thursday in the bareback riding competition at the 71st Rodeo of the Ozarks at Parsons Stadium ... «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
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Duran Duran announce new album Paper Gods and tour
This album comes at a critical time, as in 1988 my cousin Dunny tried an attempted grope at Duran Duran backstage, but he got his outtie belly ... «Tiny Mix Tapes, Jul 15»
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Here & Now #112: The faerie shrine
The old dunny is undergoing renovation. The little girl's two older brothers, armed with wood and hammer, are turning the dunny into a fort. «Echonetdaily, Jul 15»
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Story Bridge turns 75: World War II, paying 'resentful tolls' and …
"Everyone had a dunny in the backyard, and fellas used to come on horses selling clothes and sharpening your knifes and all those kind of stuff ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
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School looks back on 50 years
It would be an odd child indeed who could relate to the tales of the two classrooms and the outside "dunny" with squares of newspaper on a ... «Wanganui Chronicle, Jun 15»

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