honey bucket

English

Etymology

Compare honey pot and honey wagon (“sewage trailer”).

Noun

honey bucket (plural honey buckets)

1. (euphemistic, obsolete) A chamber pot: a bucket used for urination and defecation.
   • 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 106:

     A wood stove had been fashioned from a fifty-five gallon drum, matching the design of the honey bucket in the outhouse, the fish smoker on the riverbank and, its barrel sliced diagonally and mounted on a nose wheel, the wheelbarrow in the garden.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:chamber pot