dunny-ken

English

Noun

dunny-ken (plural dunny-kens)

  1. (slang, obsolete) An outhouse (toilet building).
    • 2022, Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice:
      He stomped out of the back door to the dunny-ken, bolted it, slammed down the dunny lid and sat on it with his face in his hands.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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