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Definition: Potty |
PottyAdjective1. (British informal) trivial; "potty little details". 2. Slang for `drunk'. 3. Stupid and confused; used especially of persons; "blathering like the addlepated nincompoop that you are"; "a confused puddingheaded, muddleheaded fellow"- Isaac Sterne. Noun1. A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination. 2. A receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: PottySynonyms: addlebrained (adj), addlepated (adj), besotted (adj), blind drunk (adj), blotto (adj), crocked (adj), fuddled (adj), loaded (adj), muddleheaded (adj), pie-eyed (adj), pissed (adj), pixilated (adj), plastered (adj), puddingheaded (adj), slopped (adj), sloshed (adj), smashed (adj), soaked (adj), soused (adj), sozzled (adj), squiffy (adj), stiff (adj), tiddley (adj), tiddly (adj), tight (adj), tipsy (adj), wet (adj), can (n), chamberpot (n), commode (n), crapper (n), pot (n), stool (n), throne (n), thunder mug (n), toilet (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Potty |
| Specialty definitions using "potty": potty ore. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Your brother went pee-pee in the potty! (Look Who's Talking Too; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) Mike, this is a potty okay? (Look Who's Talking Too; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) Boy I remember when I learned to use a potty all by myself. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Potty Time (1973) Once Upon a Potty for Her (1991) | |
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| "Potty" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.55% of the time. "Potty" is used about 109 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60.55% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 37.61% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.83% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "potty": potty chair ♦ potty seat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "potty": potty-chair, potty-trained, potty-training. | |
Ending with "potty": porta-potty. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
potty | 1,945 | potty train a dog | 31 |
potty training | 1,726 | go potty | 28 |
puppy potty training | 234 | potty training problem | 28 |
dog potty training | 149 | kid potty | 26 |
porta potty | 136 | boy potty | 24 |
potty chair | 115 | potty doll | 24 |
potty training tip | 108 | travel potty | 22 |
potty training boy | 98 | toddler potty | 21 |
potty seat | 78 | dr phil potty training | 19 |
potty train | 72 | pager potty | 19 |
toddler potty training | 51 | potty training advice | 19 |
potty training chart | 51 | porta potty rental | 19 |
potty girl | 49 | potty training cat | 18 |
potty time | 46 | once upon a potty | 18 |
portable potty | 42 | free kit potty training | 17 |
potty chart | 39 | potty training in a day | 17 |
potty train puppy | 39 | potty training pants | 17 |
potty training doll | 35 | going to the potty | 17 |
potty training child | 32 | wooden potty chair | 15 |
potty training video | 32 | port a potty | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "potty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | oturak (chamber, chamber pot, urinal), i vockël (fine, minuscule, minute, pettifogging, picayune, piddling, pinpoint, puny, slight, teeny, tiny, trifling, wee, wispy), i papërfillshëm (hole-in-the-wall, inconsiderable, naught, negligible, niggling, pettifogging, petty, trifling), i krisur (balmy, bonkers, cracked, crackers, cuckoo, Daffy, dare devil, daring, desperate, devil may care, flaky, hard on, loon, loony, madcap, nut, nuts, pixilated, screwball, wacky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مترفع عمن هم دونه, مخبول (crack-brained, crazed, demented, fool, idiotic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, mentally deranged, off his head, out of one's mind, stupid, touched), نونية للأطفال, نخالف للصواب, قعادة, غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), علم الأطفال على المشي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смахнат (bughouse, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, dippy, kinky, mental, nutty, off one's rocker, queer, soft, touched, up the pole, wacky, zany), гърненце, незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), елементарен (abecedarian, elemental, elementary, rudimental, rudimentary), луд (bedlamite, bonkers, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, kinky, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, off one's nut, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, possessed, scatty, screwy, wild), лесен (easy, effortless, facile, liveable, ready, ready made, runaway, simple, smooth, snap, soft), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), посредствен (indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, middling, moderate, ordinary, run of the mill, second rate, tame, tatty, undistinguished), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | noèníèek, hrníèek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pot (pot), toqué, rendre dingue, farfelu, dingue, apprendre les enfants aller. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kinderleicht (as easy as winking, foolproof, very easy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασήμαντοσ (fiddling, immaterial, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, niggling, nobody, nonessential, nugatory, paltry, piddling, purportless, slight, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant), ουροδοχείο μωρού. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטורף במקצת, סיר ליל" (bedpan, night pot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyavalyás (bally, bang, blankety-blank, bloody, bum, crock, damn, damned, flaming, ratty), vacak (bleeding, cheesy, contemptible, crummy, despicable, dross, flaming, lousy, mangy, measly, moldy, mouldy, number, paltry, pelting, piddling, pokey, punk, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rubbishy, ruddy, schlock, scurvied, shocking, shoddy, tacky, tatty, tinhorn, tin-pot, trash, trashy), könnyű (accommodating, as easy as shelling peas, cushy, effortless, facile, filmy, flimsy, floaty, glib, light, lightweight, mild, pad, popover, slight), hőbörödött, dilis (balmy, batty, be off his rocker, bonkers, buggy, crazy, dorky, foolish, nutter, nutty, psycho, queer, queer in the head, rummy, screwball, to be cracked, to be up the pole, up the pole, wacko, woody), bili (chamber pot, jerry, Jordan, pot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pazzo (Batty, bedlamite, crazy, distracted, fool, frenzied, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, madman, madmen, maniac, maniacal, moony, off one's rocker, raving, screwy, wacky, wild), vasino, insignificante (inexpressive, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, slight, trifling, trivial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | asscheeayll (insane, nuts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ottypay pequeno (bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, hidebound, kiddy, little, low, minor, one-horse, petty, poky, pony, puny, pygmean, short, slender, small, smalltime, sonny, tiny), trivial (banal, blanket, bread and butter, common, commonplace, course, dismal, inelaborate, light, pedestrian, petty, piddling, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosy, puerile, quotidian, slight, small, threadbare, trifling, trite, trivial, unimportant, uninspired, vulgar), insignificante (bald, fiddle-faddle, frivolous, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, little, mean, negligible, one-horse, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pitiable, pony, poor, puny, scrubby, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, wispy), excêntrico (barmy, bizarre, cam, capricious, cranky, crotcheteer, crotchety, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, kinky, lunatic, madcap, odd, oddball, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, suburban, tappet, wacky, weird, whimsical, wiper, wobbler), banal (banal, characterless, common, commonplace, dismal, flimsy, hackneyed, humdrum, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosaic, prosy, quotidian, ready-made, stale, trifling, trite, trivial, undistinguished, unimportant, unoriginal, vulgar). (various references) scrântit (Batty, cracked, flighty, sprained), nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), candriu (cracked, foolish). (various references) мелкий (dusty, fine, minute, paltry, peanut politician, pettifogging, petty, piddling, shallow, shoal, small minded, small time, small-time, two-by-four), легкий (airy, cheap, cushy, delicate, easy, easygoing, effortless, ethereal, facile, flimsy, gentle, gossamery, light, light weight, lightsome, lightweight, mild, runaway, sketchy, toilless, unlabored, unlaboured). (various references) noša (bedpan). (various references) orinal (chamber pot, chamberpot, chamber-pot, Jerry, pot, urinal). (various references) potta (Jerry, urinal), knasig (barmy, Batty, dippy, draft, fruity, gaga, half-baked, kookie, kooky, Loopy, mental, nutty, off one's head, off one's nuts, scatty, screwy, touched, wacky, wet), futtig (cheap, derisive, derisory, footling, frivolous, futile, mean, measly, paltry, picayune). (various references) oturak (seat, stool, stretcher), lazımlık (chamber pot, Jerry, pot, stool), deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, touched), basit (basic, countrified, crude, easy, elemental, elementary, everyday, facile, foolproof, frugal, frugally, homely, humble, jejune, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding, vulgar), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched). (various references) gorюok (r) (pot). (various references) незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, inessential, insignificant, little, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, petty, poor, puny, pygmy, slender, slight, small, trivial), легкий (aerial, airy, cushy, easy, effortless, facile, gossamer, light), дрібний (bantam, fractional, hair splitting, little, minute, negligible, niggling, picayune, piddling, sectarian, small, small minded, tin-pot). (various references) nhỏ mọn (fiddling, flimsy, mingy, petty, piffling), mê tít. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "potty": spotty. (additional references) | |
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"Potty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hotty, Lotty, motty, pettey, photy, pitty, poddy, pooty, porty, Posty, potey, pothy, poti, Potoy, potsy, potta, potte, Pottie, pottr, Pottu, potyf, pouty, prott, pty, pushti, putity, putti, puty, Puxty, pyttyll, Wottya. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "potty" (pronounced pÄ"tē) |
| 4 | p Ä" t ē | spotty. |
| 3 | -Ä" t ē | Dotty, karate, knotty, literati, Scottie. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "o-p-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: typo. | |
-2 letters: opt, pot, top, tot, toy. | |
-3 letters: op, oy, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-p-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: plotty, spotty. | |
+2 letters: outpity, pottery. | |
+3 letters: autotype, autotypy, potatory, potently, pyrostat, spottily, tippytoe, toplofty, topotype. | |
+4 letters: asymptote, autotypes, hypnotist, lectotype, optometry, posterity, prototype, puttyroot, pyrostats, stenotype, stenotypy, tippytoed, tippytoes, topotypes, torpidity, typewrote. | |
+5 letters: asymptotes, asymptotic, autotrophy, autotypies, copycatted, cytopathic, hepatocyte, hypnotists, hypostatic, hypotactic, impotently, lectotypes, lithophyte, optatively, optimality, osteopathy, outpitying, photolytic, photometry, phytotoxic, polytheist, positivity, potability, protectory, prototypal, prototyped, prototypes, prototypic, puttyroots, pyrrhotite, somatotype, stenotyped, stenotypes, stereotype, stereotypy, thixotropy, topicality, toploftily, toponymist, tryptophan, typologist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 74 74 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110100 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o t t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0074 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081868691 |
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