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Dunny is Australian/New Zealand slang for a toilet. Dunny may also mean: Dunny Goode (1929–2004), head football coach for Eastern New Mexico University "Dunny", nickname for Fred Dunlap (1859–1902), 19th century baseball player and manager "Dunnies", nickname for the Whitby Dunlops, a Canadian Major League Hockey team
"Dunny" or "dunny can" are Australian words for a toilet, particularly an outhouse. The combinations "dunny paper" and "dunny brush" are commonly encountered. [citation needed] For other uses of the word, see Dunny (disambiguation). In suburban areas not connected to the sewerage, outhouses were not always built over pits.
Dunny. People from the land "down under" (AKA Australia) use this dainty moniker instead of the word toilet. 11. Bog. A bog is an 18th-century British word that is shortened from "bog house."
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Many have even picked up some of the Aussie lingo, much to the delight of Zanetti, who admits cheering "when I hear that these American kids are saying 'mate' and 'sport' and 'rubbish' and 'dunny.'"
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Some researchers include a metacognitive component in their definition. In this view, the Dunning–Kruger effect is the thesis that those who are incompetent in a given area tend to be ignorant of their incompetence, i.e., they lack the metacognitive ability to become aware of their incompetence.
Vaudeville words can be found in Neil Simon's 1972 play The Sunshine Boys, in which an aging comedian gives a lesson to his nephew on comedy, saying that words with k sounds are funny: [1] Fifty-seven years in this business, you learn a few things. You know what words are funny and which words are not funny. Alka Seltzer is funny.