WATER-CLOSET

Definition: WATER-CLOSET

1. A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.

Date "WATER-CLOSET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

English words defined with "WATER-CLOSET": Hopper closet, Hopper cock. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The "Brighton" water-closet. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Charles Dickens	They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language		Translations for "WATER-CLOSET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		水壁橱. (various references)

Dutch		WC (head, lavatory, toilet, toilets, water closet), watercloset. (various references)

Esperanto		akvonecesejo. (various references)

Finnish		vessa (loo). (various references)

Hungarian		vízöblítéses klozett (wash-out water-closet), vízöblítéses illemhely (wash-out water-closet). (various references)

Icelandic		vatnssalerni, klósett. (various references)

Korean		물 옷장. (various references)

Pig Latin		ater-closetway.(various references)

Portuguese		água-armário. (various references)

Russian		уборная (chic sale, closet, convenience, dressing room, lavatory, make-up room, necessary, privy, retiring room, retiring-room, washroom, water closet, WC =water-closet). (various references)

Swedish		wc. (various references)

Vietnamese		nh� xí máy. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "WATER-CLOSET" (pronounced 'Wa"ter-clos`et'): Pea-jacket, Pickpocket, Rouet, skyrocket, Strait-jacket. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-o-r-s-t-t-w"
	-2 letters: corelates, lowercase, raclettes, relocates, tolerates.
	-3 letters: alertest, calottes, clatters, clearest, corelate, corselet, electors, electros, escarole, locaters, oleaster, raclette, relocate, saltwort, sectoral, selector, telecast, tolerate, treacles, wastelot.
	-4 letters: acerose, acetose, areoles, calotte, cartels, casette, celesta, cerates, cereals, clarets, claroes, clatter, clawers, coalers, coaster, coatees, coaters, colters, corslet, costate, costrel, cottars, cotters, creates, creoles, crestal.
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