toilet humour

7.8

Jokes about the body's natural actions that many people find rude or childish

noun
/ˈtɔɪlɪt ˈhjuːmər/

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: humor escatológico

The comedian's show relied heavily on toilet humour to get laughs from the audience.

Examples

Some parents disapproved of the film's use of toilet humour in its jokes.
Many children enjoy toilet humour because it's silly.
He finds toilet humour hilarious, but others think it's just immature.
He loves toilet humour and often makes jokes at dinner.
The movie was filled with toilet humour, making many adults cringe at its childish jokes.
At the birthday party, the kids laughed at the toilet humour jokes that were shared during the games.
He often shares toilet humour with his friends, which they find amusing but some adults consider inappropriate.

Synonyms

low comedy

vstoilet humour

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1 6.7

Funny acting in plays or films that uses physical actions and rude jokes

is narrower, focusing specifically on bodily function jokes and childish crudeness

How Crude

obscene

Offensive

33 6.2

vulgar term

Offensive

9.8

toilet humour

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7.8

bawdy

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10 9.3

light-hearted way

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Surface Forms

toilet humour singular

toilet humours plural

toilet humors plural

toilet humor singular

Morphology

toilet + humor

The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'toilet' refers to the bathroom/bodily functions and 'humour' means jokes, so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes jokes about bodily functions or crude bathroom-related jokes. This construction (also seen as 'bathroom humour'/'bathroom humor' in other varieties and in many languages) follows an obvious compositional pattern and should be comprehensible to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Toilet humour combines toilet (the bathroom) and humour (funny things) and comes from the simple image of jokes about toilets and body actions like farting or peeing. That's why toilet humour means jokes about bodily functions that many people call 'crude' or 'immature'.