honey bucket
- noun
- /ˈhʌni ˈbʌkɪt/
- Informal
:
inodoro portátil
- After the concert, the honey buckets were emptied and cleaned by the staff.
Examples
-
Many remote cabins rely on a honey bucket instead of indoor plumbing.
-
The camp provided a honey bucket for use during the expedition.
-
The festival provided several honey buckets for the attendees.
-
I saw a honey bucket behind the tent.
-
The campers set up a honey bucket for easy access to a toilet in the remote area.
-
At the outdoor festival, attendees lined up to use the portable honey bucket.
-
During the construction project, they provided a honey bucket for workers to maintain sanitation.
How Sanitary
3
1.4
- Specialized
33
5.8
- Informal
- Baby Talk
1
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal combination of 'honey' (a sweet substance) and 'bucket' (a container) yields the image of a container of honey, not a toilet; the sense 'portable toilet' is a euphemistic/slang extension that cannot be predicted from the constituents. Because the meaning depends on cultural slang rather than compositional morphology, a B1 learner who knows the words would not reliably infer the intended sense.
Etymology
The name honey bucket is a joking, polite name for a simple portable toilet. One popular story says people used the sweet word honey with bucket to avoid saying 'poop', so the term now means a bucket used as a toilet.