spend a penny

spend a penny
verb
eliminate urine
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Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

• Syn:
↑make, ↑urinate, ↑piddle, ↑puddle, ↑micturate, ↑piss, ↑pee, ↑pee-pee, ↑make water, ↑relieve oneself, ↑take a leak, ↑wee, ↑wee-wee, ↑pass water
• Derivationally related forms:
↑pee (for: ↑pee), ↑peeing (for: ↑pee), ↑piss (for: ↑piss), ↑pisser (for: ↑piss), ↑pissing (for: ↑piss), ↑micturition (for: ↑micturate), ↑piddle (for: ↑piddle), ↑urination (for: ↑urinate), ↑urine (for: ↑urinate), ↑urinator (for: ↑urinate)
• Hypernyms: ↑excrete, ↑egest, ↑eliminate, ↑pass
• Hyponyms: ↑wet, ↑stale
• Verb Group:
↑stool, ↑defecate, ↑shit, ↑take a shit, ↑take a crap, ↑ca-ca, ↑crap, ↑make, ↑urinate
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

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spend a penny see under ↑spend
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Main Entry: ↑penny
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spend a penny (euphemistic)
To urinate
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Main Entry: ↑spend

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spend a penny british informal old-fashioned phrase
to go to the toilet
Thesaurus: going to the toilethyponym
Main entry: spend

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I
see spend
II
Brit., informal urinate (used euphemistically)
Origin:
with reference to the coin-operated locks of public toilets

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spend a ˈpenny idiom
(old-fashioned, BrE) people say ‘spend a penny’ to avoid saying ‘use the toilet’
Main entry: ↑spendidiom

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