kocay

English

Alternative forms

koley, cockey

Etymology

From Middle English cokei (“stream; drain, gutter”).^[1]

Noun

kocay (plural kocays)

(obsolete and rare) A place used for urination and defecation: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
- c. 1440,, Promptorium Parvulorum, p. 281:
  Kocay, priuy, cloaca.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:bathroom

References

↑ "cokei (n.)" in the Electronic Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

"† kocay, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1901), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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