Potty

From pot("chamberpot") + -y("diminutive suffix").

Full definition of potty

Noun

1. A chamber pot used by young children while learning control of their bladder and bowels.
• 1940, w, In the Money, If you just let him know you want him to go on the potty, or anything, he's miles away.
• 1949, Edith Buxbaum, Your child makes sense: a guidebook for parents, Mothers very often make the baby and themselves unhappy by setting the child on the potty every hour.
2. (childish) A toilet bowl. Can be used as essentially a synonym of toilet or bathroom in some phrases, e.g. , porta-potty, potty humor.

Synonyms

• chamberpot, po, pot

Verb

1. (intransitive, childish) Variant of go potty.

Derived terms

• go potty
• potty break
• potty mouth
• potty-training
• porta-potty

Adjective

1. (informal) Insane.The noise that the neighbour's kids were making was driving Fred potty.
2. (dated)
• Rudyard Kipling"A potty little nine-hole affair at a hydro in the Midlands. My cousins stay there. Always will. Not but what the fourth and the seventh holes take some doing. You could manage it, though," he said encouragingly.

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