1937 E. J. Partridge Baby's Point of View v. 83 An undue anxiety over whether, or not,..‘potty’ has been used, can be very harmful.

1940 Time 15 Apr. 50/2 Only in the last quarter of their first year..did the two definitely recognize the purpose of the potty.

1949 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 26 July 4/4 When the baby is 9 or 10 months old it can be placed for short periods on the ‘potty’.

1952 C. Hayes in S. Rogers Children & Lang. (1975) iv. 283 Don't flush the soap down the potty, dear.

1965 W. H. Auden About House (1966) 26 Lifted off the potty, Infants from their mothers Hear their first impartial Words of worldly praise.

1976 Milton Keynes Express 4 June 22/3 (advt.) White baby bath and potty, £1.25.

1989 J. Cole Your New Potty (verso title page) Steffie and Ben learn how to use the potty as they make the transition from diapers to underpants.

2003 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 18 Jan. 16 Other incidents include an outdoor diner tipping the contents of their child's potty in a pot plant.

1940 W. C. Williams In the Money x. 134 If you let him know you want him to go on the potty,..he's miles away. He just turns and runs.]

1950 L. A. Kirkendall Sex Educ. as Human Relations vii. 69 The child can learn just as easily to say ‘go to the toilet’ or ‘bowel movement’ as to learn ‘wee-wee’ or ‘go potty’.

1956 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. 23/1 Mommy I gotta go potty.

1965 Tri-City Herald (Washington) 5 Feb. 1/3 When nature calls, he heads for the bathroom, Stink climbs onto the throne, and ‘goes potty’ like he was taught.

1985 ‘W. Tinasky’ Let. 9 Jan. (1996) ii. 34/1 You probably remember they were still putting dear Lolly Parson's name on her column when she was past ninety and had been going potty in her pants for decades.

2004 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. f4 Every time she went potty, she picked out one sticker to put on the ‘potty board’... Within two weeks, she was fully potty trained.

1941 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 26 Dec. 28/5 (advt.) Taylor Tots; play pens; high chairs; folding buggies; tricycles; potty chairs.

1965 M. Shadbolt Among Cinders ii. 11 The only thing I really saw was a little kid's potty-chair.

1995 Today's Parent Feb. 16/3 Instead of calling it a potty chair, I explained that it was a kid's toilet, one to make her pees and poos in.

1969 Life Lines 5 Nov. 4/1 This column has been on a jeremiad about NBC's ‘Laugh-In’ for some time now, because of the peep show's proclivity for profanity and potty humor.

1991 Brandon (Manitoba) Sunday 21 July 13/5 Travolta and Alley never achieve a good screwball romantic relationship in a script that resorts frequently to potty humour.

2012 S. Robins & S. Wildsmith Parent's Guide to Best Kids' Comics 24/1 There are a few minor instances of potty humor—a focus on the ice-cream monster's butt and reference to the mean little boy having to pee.

1969 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 iv. 8 Potty mouth, a person who repeatedly uses foul language.

1976 Time 10 May 79/2 Potentially even more annoying is the widespread abuse of the channels—especially by so-called potty mouths using obscenities.

1990 Washington Times (Nexis) 11 May g6 It has come to my attention that I have a potty mouth.

2005 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 4 July 2 The problem with a national TV show..is that the big audience of all ages suppresses a comedian's natural potty mouth.

1987 Los Angeles Times 21 Mar. i. 29/1 Six exotic birds, including a cranky, potty-mouthed..Amazon, were stolen.

1998 New Jersey Monthly Jan. 24/1 Thanks to..a potty-mouthed little piece of trash-cinema.., I went from having a minimum wage job to a maximum wage career.

2003 Guardian (Nexis) 4 June ii. 3 We are cracking down on potty-mouthed customers..who insist on turning the air blue.

1987 Los Angeles Times 18 Sept. i. 1/1 The so-called potty parity bill..would require all new or remodeled sports or entertainment facilities..to be equipped with the minimum number of toilets recommended by the state's uniform plumbing code.

1991 R. Maggio Dict. Bias-free Usage 159 To achieve what has been termed potty parity, there is talk of more than doubling the number of toilets in women's rooms in convention halls and performing arts centers.

2003 Ideas on Liberty 53 21/1 Long known as the ‘Father of Potty Parity’, last year he joined in a federal complaint against the University of Michigan for having only a third more restroom facilities for women.

1943 Troy (N.Y.) Record 27 Aug. 5/6 (advt.) Tots' potty seats.

1973 Nevada State Jrnl. 29 Apr. 54/1 ‘I have to go to the bathroom.’ ‘Ok. OK.’ Potty seat on. ‘Close the door, Josh. I'm freezing.’

2002 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 10 Aug. 1 wb That cutely named Florida firm..is offering a freestanding potty seat that looks like an Adirondack chair.

1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 June 686/3 Contributors to anthologies can pursue minor themes more selectively, if occasionally pottily.

1996 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 26 Apr. l31 Countess Aurelia thrives in a fantasy world.., and her reactions to her surroundings are intriguingly balanced between the regally detached and the pottily connected.

1957 Los Angeles Times 2 Sept. ii. 4/4 My son is 3 years old... He arises crying, cries when pottied, dressed, told to do anything.

1988 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 17 Dec. The children had to be fed, bathed and pottied in the same large room.

2002 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 19 Jan. e2 Millions of mothers around the world start pottying their babies at birth or by age three months and finish relatively early.

1972 Hamburg (Iowa) Reporter 16 Mar. 4/4 That collar and license sure doesn't keep all the dogs..from ‘pottying’ in my yard and in my garden.

1992 R. M. Asher Women with Alcoholic Husbands ii. 51 He came in and he threw up all over my mother's carpet (and) pottied inside his pants.

2005 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 8 Feb. e3 She's also teaching Honey how to walk nicely on a leash, the importance of pottying outside rather than indoors and basic obedience commands.