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单词 chamber pot
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chamber potn.

Brit. /ˈtʃeɪmbə pɒt/, U.S. /ˈtʃeɪmbər ˌpɑt/
Forms: see chamber n. and pot n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: chamber n., pot n.1
Etymology: < chamber n. + pot n.1, perhaps after Middle French pot de chambre pot de chambre n. (although this is apparently first attested slightly later). Compare Middle Dutch (diminutive) camerpotgen (Dutch kamerpot).
A bowl kept in a bedroom and used for the discharge of urine, etc., esp. at night. Cf. chamber n. 7, pot de chambre n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > chamber-pot, etc.
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1540 Inventory in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 1/161) f. 56v Item a chamber potte.
1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 348 Fyue chamber pottes of pouther vs.
a1652 R. Brome City Wit iii. ii. sig. D, in Five New Playes (1653) I will prefer thee to..make my Bed..and evacuate my Chamberpot.
1698 S. Crisp Christ Exalted 63 Hath not the Potter power over the Clay, of the same lump to make a hundred Chamber-pots and but five drinking Vessels?
1711 E. Freke Diary 22 Feb. (1913) 270 I had five more In my Trunke In A sillver Chamber pott.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. li. 109 Snatching up an earthen chamber-pot,..shaking his jordan at the imaginary guard.
1819 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 119/2 The chamber-pots are emptied into the hog-wash.
1892 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 18 July 6/1 (advt.) Unclaimed and Stolen Property... 1 Chamber Pot, 2 Mugs, 12 Plates, 2 Ornaments, [etc.].
1936 D. Thomas Let. 25 Apr. (1987) 226 He'd give her another cup of tea and hold the chamber pot up invitingly and say, ‘Now surely you must make water now.’
1965 T. Holme Carlyles at Home iv. 49 Sanitation was primitive:..the bedrooms were furnished with chamber-pots, and there was an earth closet in the garden.
2004 T. Botha Mongo viii. 183 If you had to clean all the chamber pots and privies, you emptied them in a place called the rose garden.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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