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A khazi is a toilet — the room, or the thing you sit on. It is British slang, a bit cheeky, and you will hear it more from older speakers, especially in London. Nobody it in a formal letter, and most Americans will not know the word at all. Younger people in Britain more often just say toilet or loo. Though actually, the joke inside the word is that it once meant “house”: it is a worn-down Cockney form of carsey, from Italian casa.
廁所(英國老派俚語)
組成A Cockney form of carsey, from Italian casa (“house”), used as a roundabout way of not saying toilet. It may have come through Polari and Sabir, old mixed languages used in ports and theatres.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
khazinoun/ˈkɑːzi/
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slangAn outhouse or lavatory: a place used for urination and defecation.
- Carsey,... a w.c.
- You made a real thorough search? Everywhere? Outhouses, karzey, the lot?
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slangA toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation (also figurative).
- Well, that plan's down the khazi.
- Have you seen the carsy? Just a bucket with a seat on top.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。