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Noun
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How a team can go from the castle to the outhouse overnight.—
Doug Haller,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025 -
This outhouse, very low-key in its arrangement and cold in winter, would later be transformed in 1934 to become a proper writing lodge.—
Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Atkins grew up in rural Appalachia in a rented home with an outdoor privy.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
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In the time of the Founding Fathers the privy was also known as the necessary, being so instrumental to every person.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Not a single john was named in the conspiracy, despite there likely being hundreds.—
Anita ChabriaColumnist,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Oct. 2022
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The forced execution of Flora by Joanie behind closed whorehouse doors evokes Trixie’s murder of an abusive john in the pilot (his corpse becoming pig chow).—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2021
Noun
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Advantageously, the two-in-one design keeps splashing water and wet footprints away from the commode and vanity areas.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Sep. 2025
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Here there are two separate vanities with sinks, a hydro-soaking tub, separate shower stall, and a separate room for the commode.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Jakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jakes. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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