Talk:toilet

EN: Vague circular definitions
Surely we can do better than vague circular definitions like
 * (UK, Australia) A room or enclosed area containing a toilet: a bathroom or water closet. [from 19th c.] quotations ▼
 * (New Zealand) A small secondary lavatory having a toilet and sink but no bathtub or shower.

Perhaps these entries were written by a US-English speaker who thought that this would be clear to US-English-speaking readers.

Note well that the markup as toilet is not visible when just viewing the article, rather than the source code.

Note also that the sense presumably referred to appears after these definitions.

—DIV (1.145.115.242 13:32, 2 February 2023 (UTC))

EN: Euphemism
Should several of these definitions be tagged as euphemisms, as is the case at lavatory, given, "From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century."? —DIV (1.145.115.242 13:41, 2 February 2023 (UTC))