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gardyloo|gɑːdɪˈluː|
Also 9 garde loo, jordeloo.
[app. f. a pseudo-Fr. phrase gare de l'eau ‘beware of the water’; in correct Fr. it would be gare l'eau.]
A warning cry uttered (in old Edinburgh) before throwing dirty water from the window into the street. to make the gardyloo: to throw the dirty water out.
[1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1782) 48/2 It comes against you without crying ‘garde d'eau!’] 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. II. 227 The whole cargo is flung out of a back window..and the maid calls gardy loo to the passengers. 1808Jamieson, Jordeloo. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxvii, She had made the gardyloo out of the wrang window. Ibid. xxxviii, The overwhelming cataract of her questions, which burst forth with the sublimity of a grand gardyloo. 1858Ramsay Remin. Ser. i. (1860) 260 The wellknown cry which preceded the missile and warned the passenger was Garde loo! |