chamberpot
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- noun
- /ˈtʃeɪmbərˌpɑt/
- Archaic
:
orinal
- He seems better, yet he poured yesterday's medicine into the chamberpot --
Examples
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During her stay at the old inn, she had to use the chamberpot instead of a modern toilet.
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Making beds and washing chamberpots?
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At least I could make some contextual sense of the latter two events, which is why I've decided to void ol' Merco into the stained chamberpot of Nobody's Favorites.
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In the past, many homes kept a chamberpot under the bed for nighttime use.
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Before the invention of indoor plumbing, a chamberpot was a common fixture in bedrooms.
Synonyms
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A round container used for cooking or holding plants
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A small toilet that young children use while learning
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A shallow container people use in bed when they cannot get up to pee or poo
A small container kept in a bedroom for someone to pee or poo at night
How Sanitary
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- US
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word chamberpot comes from the two parts chamber 'room' and pot 'container'. It named a bowl kept in the bedroom and used as a toilet before indoor plumbing, so the name simply means a 'room pot'.