Privy

Word PRIVY
Character 5
Hyphenation priv y
Pronunciations /ˈpɹɪv.i/

Definitions and meanings of "Privy"

What do we mean by privy?

Made a participant in knowledge of something private or secret. adjective

Belonging or proper to a person, such as the British sovereign, in a private rather than official capacity. adjective

Secret; concealed. adjective

An outdoor toilet; an outhouse. noun

A toilet. noun

One in privity with another. noun

Private; pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public: as, the privy purse.

Secret; not seen openly; not made known in public.

Private; appropriated to retirement; sequestered; retired.

Privately knowing; admitted to the participation with another in knowledge of a secret transaction: generally with to.

Intimate; familiar; on confidential terms; well known.

Cognizant (of), acquainted (with).

In law, one standing in a relation of privily to another. See privity, 7. noun

A secret friend. noun

A necessary. noun

A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party. noun

A necessary house or place for performing excretory functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse. noun

Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private. adjective

Secret; clandestine. adjective

An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).

A lavatory: a room with a toilet.

A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Privy

The word "privy" in example sentences

Bacillus coli inhabits the internal tract of cattle as well as of man, but when in a farmyard the privy is as near to the shallow well as is the dung heap, it is not exactly safe to suppose that these and other contaminating microbes are derived only from harmless cattle. ❋ John George (1918)

Posted in privy council clerk kevin lynch, public service minority gap, restorative justice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The privy is a straight "Parson's bench" style with 40 holes; ten on each side wall and twenty back to back in the middle of the building. ❋ Unknown (1944)

The word privy is one of the earliest euphemisms used in England; an anonymous writer at the turn of the fifteenth century advised ❋ Unknown (1993)

journalists have been sent to Pyongyang and are undergoing a direct investigation '' by the North's spy agency and military, Yonhap quoted a source in China it described as privy to North Korean affairs.

Shivering, he mooched outside to what Uncle Gib called the privy and he the “bog.” ❋ Ruth Rendell (2010)

I didn't use actual slang words, per se, except for "necessary" (which is what ladies called the privy or outhouse). ❋ Little Willow (2007)

Just recently, it dawned on me that the privy was a one-holer. ❋ Holly (2005)

Were they prevailed on to call a privy meeting tomorrow, with a loaded quorum, Hauksberg would depart with the authority he needed. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1966)

It would be the highest disgrace to him if he were, since even his so-called privy-chamber [708] resounds with the noise of clamorous litigants. ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)

The privy is a dark winding recess, about 6 feet from front to back, taken out of the solid castle walls. ❋ Unknown (1846)

They could not all come within hearing, but he called for all the elders, that is, the privy-counsellors, which in later times constituted the great ❋ Unknown (1721)

And (to get scatological for a moment), the use of the word "privy" for a toilet gets a lot closer to what we mean by "privacy" in the modern sexual context. ❋ Richard Nokes (2005)

April 14th, 2006 at 6:43 pm sounds like he deserved another kind of privy, VG ❋ Unknown (2006)

LH, you seem to be saying most native speakers don't get--not even instinctively--the meaning of 'privy' in 'privy council' or 'privy to'. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I'm fairly confident that the vast majority of my fellow Americans know the word, if at all, only as a part of some weird British institutions; "privy to" is a highfaluting phrase over here and would be used only as a show of erudition, and even those who know the phrase would I suspect be unable to tell you what exactly "privy" means. ❋ Unknown (2004)

SMITH: Well, for instance, the Constitution says nothing about the cabinet, and Washington appears to have wanted to treat the Senate as a kind of privy council, much as colonial governors had executive councils to advise them. ❋ Unknown (1993)

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