do one's easement
verbEtymology From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.
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Euphemistic, Obsolete To ease one's bowels: to defecate.
- He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayers.2013, Shirley McKay, “A Merry Month”, in Friend & Foe (A Hew Cullen Mystery), Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN:
- Synonyms
- defecate
- Derived terms
- do one's ease, house of ease, house of easement, stool of easement