Definitions
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- noun historical A
close-stool , astool enclosing achamber pot . - noun UK, Australia A rudimentary outside
toilet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They returned to the outhouse where the sergeant opened the lid of the thunderbox and shone his torch down the pit, revealing their man up to this armpits in years and years of crap.
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He will murder me; and break, burn, and destroy my precious and invaluable thunderbox; and then you will have no more thunder-showers in the land.
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And a very good-natured gentleman and lady they were, though they were heathens; and talked quite pleasantly to Tom about his travels, till the Powwow man arrived, with his thunderbox under his arm.
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And a very good-natured gentleman and lady they were, though they were heathens; and talked quite pleasantly to Tom about his travels, till the Powwow man arrived, with his thunderbox under his arm.
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He will murder me; and break, burn, and destroy my precious and invaluable thunderbox; and then you will have no more thunder-showers in the land.
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He will murder me; and break, burn, and destroy my precious and invaluable thunderbox; and then you will have no more thunder-showers in the land.
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And a very good-natured gentleman and lady they were, though they were heathens; and talked quite pleasantly to Tom about his travels, till the Powwow man arrived, with his thunderbox under his arm.
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One of our mantests on Telic I involved going into a thunderbox under the midday sun and banging one out.
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One of our mantests on Telic I involved going into a thunderbox under the midday sun and banging one out.
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One of our mantests on Telic I involved going into a thunderbox under the midday sun and banging one out.
knitandpurl commented on the word thunderbox
"He headed for the thunderbox with gulls, terns, shags and cockroaches watching him come."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 9 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition
March 25, 2010
bilby commented on the word thunderbox
A dunny!
March 25, 2010