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English
Etymology
From Middle English cokei (“stream; drain, gutter”).[1]
Noun
kocay (plural kocays)
- (obsolete and rare) A place used for urination and defecation: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
c. 1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, page 281:
Synonyms
References
- ^ "cokei (n.)" in the Electronic Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
- "† kocay, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1901), Oxford: Oxford University Press.