commode
noun/kəˈməʊd/
Etymology Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenient”). Doublet of comodo.
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A low chest of drawers on short legs.
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A stand for a washbowl and jug.
3
A chair containing a chamber pot.
- Changing bandages and emptying the commode doesn’t exactly create a sexy environment, but we never talk about doctors’ appointments or heart problems when we’re in our room – we preserve that little bit of space for ourselves.2025 October 26, Olivia Ladanyi, quoting Zach, “This is how we do it: ‘When his grandma heard us having sex, she asked if we’d been “having a fun dance” upstairs’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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South Asia, US, Euphemistic A toilet.
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Historical A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
- Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do. […] You nuzzle your Noſes into their Hoods and Commodes, […]1693, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Richmond Heiress: Or, A Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy, […], London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 14:
- Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect, Bare-fac’d devours in gawdy Colours deck.1696, George Granville, The She-Gallants:
- Synonyms
- chamber pot, toilet
- Related terms
- accommodation, commodious, discommode, incommode, air commode, bidet