Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deaf; dull of apprehension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Deaf; stupid.
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- adjective UK, dialect
Deaf ;stupid . - noun slang, dated An outside toilet, or the passageway leading to it; (by extension) a passageway or cellar.
Etymologies
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Examples
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While it's still OK to throw snags on the barbie, the use of "dunny" is going down the toilet.
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And the great thing there was to stick your head down the dunny as a way of initiating you into high school and then flushing the bog on you and stuff.
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All this assumes we get the single engine fkn f35 before. .say … 2015, which IMHO, i think will not happen and a fkn truck load of cash will have been flushed down the fkn dunny.
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I understood what was going on instantly - it took me 19 seconds and seeing these kids getting dragged off to the dunny.
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The dunny, which fell apart, was in pieces spread from one end of the boat to the other, along with other equipment.
True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010
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Everything, from the near-new engine to the positively radioactive dunny, came off as we settled into the shed, set up scaffolding, and got together all the tools and equipment.
True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010
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Lest he gets homesick, how about some redbacks in the dunny?
Raymond Horne « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Missus jets out to QLD A.M thursday so I get to collect young fella from Footy training, that 6pm at the earliest, drop at the Marsh, 6.30, turn dunny door around and head for melb, thats 40 minutes obeying the LAW!
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Other than that, the dunny has also decided not to play nicely, which is also more annoying than anything.
True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010
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Never considered barricading myself in the dunny, though.
A La Recherche Du Gents Perdue juliette 2009
lampbane commented on the word dunny
Toilet.
September 17, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word dunny
(adjective) - (1) Hard of hearing. Dunch is deaf in Gloucestershire and Somersetshire dialects; whence is derived the word dunce.
--G. Lewis's Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Herefordshire, 1839
(2) Dunt, to confuse with noise; to deafen. From 15th-century dunt, a dull blow.
--Edward Gepp's Essex Dialect Dictionary, 1923
January 16, 2018