English Dictionary

gardyloo

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡɑːdɪˈluː/

間投詞

スコットランド英語 廃用

(Scotland, obsolete) Used by people in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late as the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.

日本語の意味

中世スコットランドで、窓から下界に廃棄物を投げる際に通行人へ警告するために発された掛け声。

gardyloo! the landlady shouted as she tipped her chamber pot into the street below.

「下に気をつけて！」と女将が叫び、おまるの中身を通りに捨てた。

意味（1）

(Scotland, obsolete) Used by people in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late as the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.

[A]ll the chairs in the family are emptied into this here barrel once a-day; and at ten o'clock at night the whole cargo is flung out of a back windore that looks into some street or lane, and the maid calls Gardy loo to the passengers, which signifies, Lord have mercy upon you! and this is done every night in every house at Haddingborough; so you may guess, Mary Jones, what a sweet savour comes from such a number of profuming pans […]