What's Your Usual Term For a Bathroom?

[Dung_Beetle]

Bathroom. Occasionally, the shitatorium. At work we all call it the library.

[drew870mitchell]

Bathroom in most circumstances, toilet for less classy company.

If I want to mention that I’m going out without saying something vulgar like “bathroom” or “toilet” or “I have to go pee” I say “powder room.” It always gets a chuckle out of people and technically speaking means a very classy old-world type room to go to.

[TurboNuke]

The head.

[Rack-a-Bones]

@drew870mitchell

Bathroom in most circumstances, toilet for less classy company.

If I want to mention that I’m going out without saying something vulgar like “bathroom” or “toilet” or “I have to go pee” I say “powder room.” It always gets a chuckle out of people and technically speaking means a very classy old-world type room to go to.

It’s funny how we have a different term depending on the company we’re in.

I like to call it something I think will amuse my company. If I’m with my friends in a divey place I like to say that I’m retiring for a spell in the Gentlemen’s Lounge or the powder room.

If I’m in polite company or in a foo foo place I like to say I have to hit the head or I’m off to find the pisser.

But, then again, I’m weird.

[Trinopus]

The Jakes.

[manila]

Nobody else use/heard the common pinoy term CR? ( Comfort Room)

[chacoguy]

Yard, Lawn, outside or ‘Groover’

[cmyk]

@njtt

I am well aware of that. I was making the point that the usage is systematically ambiguous. Actual rooms with baths or other washing equipment in them need not contain a toilet, and I am reasonably sure that they sometimes do not, even in the USA. I am sure that in the USA there are also rooms with no bath but a toilet, and there are probably some (perhaps rarely) with a toilet but neither a bath nor basin. Certainly in the UK, and I expect in other countries, this latter arrangement is common (although a room where you can was will normally be immediately adjacent, if this is the case). The common American use of “bathroom” to mean “room where there is a toilet” is a euphemism that can easily lead to confusion. The OP invited such confusions, and does not seem to have considered the fact that many people who see this poll will not be American. The poll really should have accounted for that.

And yes, I am aware that all words for toilet, including “toilet”, were originally euphemisms* (or anti-euphemisms like “shithole” or “bog”). That does not alter the fact that the most common American euphemisms for it, notably “bathroom” and “restroom” are ambiguous and potentially misleading in the way that dead euphemisms such as “toilet”, “lavatory”, and “loo” are not. Like dead metaphors, these (the first two anyway) have turned into regular, literal, non-euphemistic terms in British English, whereas the usual American terms retain a strong air of prissiness.

Incidentally, my American born wife usually said “potty”, which seemed to me not so much prissy as childish. Furthermore, in Britain “potty” means mildly (and harmlessly) insane.

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*I have heard it claimed that the now obsolete term “jakes”, never was a euphemism. I do not know if that is true. If so, I would be in favor of reviving “jakes”, though I suppose people called Jake might not be too happy about it.

Okay.

I don’t know that there’s any more “prissiness” behind calling the place you take a shit the “bathroom” over calling it the restroom, washroom, water closet, loo, head, john, toilet or anything else. I was merely saying when someone in the US, far and wide, are looking for a place to piss or shit, “bathroom” is the most common parlance. :shrug:

Prissy? Seriously? And you lived here?

[cmyk]

And, yes, “potty” is childish here (but can be used ironically).

[LilabetTheOther]

A potty, in the UK, is first and foremost the training device for children being potty-trained - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=potty&hl=en&client=safari&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=boU0UfSmE6aW0QXemIGQCQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=644

[kayaker]

@LilabetTheOther

A potty, in the UK, is first and foremost the training device for children being potty-trained - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=potty&hl=en&client=safari&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=boU0UfSmE6aW0QXemIGQCQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=644

Same in the US, IME.

Commode? I know a few older folks who use the word.

[Peremensoe]

@kayaker

Commode? I know a few older folks who use the word.

Where I am, “commode” refers to the actual toilet fixture, never the room.

[DrumBum]

Either “casa de banho” or “banheiro.” Some older structures have WC on the doors.

[highrollinwooded]

At work it’s “I need to use the Whizzer”…we are an odd bunch, though! LOL

[Cinnamon_Imp]

@PunditLisa

I call it the “loo” as well. It’s short for Waterloo, I believe.

Another vote for “loo”, which I’d believed was short for “gardyloo”.

[wolfman]

The Shititorium

[Mama_Zappa]

At home, it’s “bathroom”.

In public, I may ask for directions to the bathroom, or to the restroom. Not sure why I do that, except perhaps that so many signs list them as restrooms (e.g. on mall maps).

[SciFiSam]

The loo or toilet if in a house. The loos or toilets if in a public place like a shopping centre.

@Rayne_Man

“WC” seems to be quite common for signage on the continent of Europe, including the UK.

On signage yes, but it’s not the usual way to refer to them.

[liquorinthefront]

the head

[TBG]

@Miss_Gnomer

Bathroom = the place with a bath/shower … not necessarily a toilet

Toilet = definitely has a toilet but may also include bath etc

More common in Australia to ask where the toilet is … if you asked in my house where the bathroom was - there is no toilet in there so you might be disappointed!

Not if there’s a drain, I won’t be! It’s all pipes!