do one's ease
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English
Etymology
A clipped form of do one's easement, a former euphemism for easing one's bowels.
Verb
do one's ease (third-person singular simple present does one's ease, present participle doing one's ease, simple past did one's ease, past participle done one's ease)
- (euphemistic, obsolete) To ease one's bowels; to defecate.
- 1620 May 22 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XVIII. To Sir James Crofts, from Paris.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. , 3rd edition, volume I, London: Humphrey Mosley, , published 1655, →OCLC, section I, page 26:
- Another time, the old Duke of Main, who was uſed to play the drol with him, coming ſoftly into his Bedchamber, and thruſting in his Bald-head, and Long-neck, in a poſture to make the King merry, it happened the King was come from doing his Eaſe, and ſpying him, he took the round Cover of the Cloſe-ſtool, and clap'd it on his Bald-Sconce, […]
Synonyms
- do one's duty, do one's easement; see also Thesaurus:defecate
Derived terms
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "ease, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1891.