honey bucket en · NOUN
Etymology
Compare honey pot and honey wagon (“sewage trailer”).
Meanings
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(euphemistic, obsolete) A chamber pot: a bucket used for urination and defecation.
A wood stove had been fashioned from a fifty-five gallon drum, matching the design of the honey bucket in the outhouse, the fish smoker on the riverbank and, its barrel sliced diagonally and mounted on a nose wheel, the wheelbarrow in the garden.
1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 106:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| honey buckets | Number=Plur | lexicographic |