Urinal of the Planets
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]In allusion to the frequent rainy weather.
Proper noun
[edit]- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, derogatory, rare) Ireland.
- 2008, Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Facts on File:
- A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland's wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Planets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.) Ireland is perhaps the only […]
- 2015 April 18, Graham Sutherland, Conspiracy of Fate, Knowle Villa Books, →ISBN:
- 'I thought you would have preferred to have been with them in that stinking urinal of the planets, looking for bog-oranges.' Kempe's sympathy towards the plight of the Irish was well known, and he had no sympathisers here tonight.