Interjection
gardyloo
- (Scotland, obsolete) Used by people in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late as the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
Noun
gardyloo (plural gardyloos)
- (Scotland, historical) A cry of “gardyloo”.
- An act of discarding waste or some other substance from a height.
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