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Potty

Definition: Potty

Potty

Adjective

1. (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.

Noun

1. 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: Potty

Synonyms: 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)

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Crosswords: Potty

Specialty definitions using "potty": potty ore. (references)

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Modern Usage: Potty

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Potty

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mommy! I Have to Go Potty!: A Parent's Guide to Toilet Training (reference)

  • My Big Boy Potty (reference)

  • Potty Training For Dummies (reference)

  • The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers: A Survival Manual to the "Terrible Twos" (And Ones and Threes) from the First Step, the First Potty and the First Word ("No") to the Last Blankie (reference)

  • The Potty Book - For Boys (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Bear in the Big Blue House - Potty Time with Bear (reference)

  • Once Upon a Potty for Him (reference)

  • Once Upon a Potty Gift Pack Hers (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Potty

Computer Images:
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Usage Frequency: Potty

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)60.55%6641,290
Adjective (general or positive)37.61%4153,521
Noun (proper)1.83%2245,945
                    Total100.00%109N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Potty

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Potty

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Potty

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

noša (bedpan). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

orinal (chamber pot, chamberpot, chamber-pot, Jerry, pot, urinal). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Turkmen 

  

gorюok (r) (pot). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nhỏ mọn (fiddling, flimsy, mingy, petty, piffling), mê tít. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Potty

Derivations

Words ending with "potty": spotty. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Potty"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "potty" (pronounced pÄ"tē)
4p Ä" t ēspotty.
3-Ä" t ēDotty, karate, knotty, literati, Scottie.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Potty

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Potty


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 74 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110100 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#116 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0074 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5081868691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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