All 18 Uses of
privy
in
Cold Sassy Tree
- And go back to usin' lamps and privies?" asked Papa irritably.†
- Said he didn't mind going to Egypt, which was what everybody in town called privies.†
- Hurrying by the factory, I came to where the mill hands lived in close-together little shotgun houses — three rooms in a row, like long boxes, with public wells and privies that served two or three houses each.†
- Besides how she felt about Miss Love, there was how she felt about kerosene lamps, well water, and privies.†
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- Grandpa must of been twenty-five at least when he turned over the privy at the depot with a Yankee railroad bigwig in it.†
- If Miss Love had notions about Grandpa that day — the way Miss Effie Belle claimed later — having to use a privy and draw well water and go to the back porch to throw out the dirty dishwater would have been enough to make her think twice.†
- He put in a nice new privy, and had a new well dug right by the back porch so you didn't have to go in the yard to draw water.†
- Also, I knew I'd be embarrassed if she was sweaty and lintheaded from the factory or if, Lord forbid, I saw her coming out of a privy.†
- I'd noticed a big hornet's nest in the privy, just under the tin roof, so I bided my time behind a tree till I saw him go in there.†
- It turned out his aunt was a widow woman with ten children, living in a nasty, rundown old cabin on a turkey farm where you couldn't get to the privy without stepping in turkey mess.†
- She came to the dining room door drying her hands and said sweetly, "Mr. B., I know now isn't the time or place to be talking about this, but don't you think it would be nice if the privy was nearer the house?†
- Doggit, woman, you got us eatin' in the dang dinin' room weekdays as well as Sundays; now you talkin' bout movin' the privy.†
- I said let's move the privy closer to the house.†
- I could tell he'd already forgot about her wanting the privy moved and maybe hoping for a bathroom.†
- After introductions all around, the old lady apologized again for the kerosene lamps and the privy.†
- But she didn't once in the whole time we were there admit she had a privy, too, or mention her well water and lamplight.†
- While we took turns at the privy, she got out a soft white nightgown for Miss Love.†
- Mr. Pearl was telling another group about the time Rucker turned over the privy at the depot with a Yankee railroad president in there, "and the Yankee offered a fifty-dollar re-ward to anybody who'd tell him who did it.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(privy as in: privy to her real identity) informed about something secret or not generally known
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, privy can refer to a hidden place, outhouse, or toilet.