Definitions For Gardyloo

Noun

GARDYLOO (plural GARDYLOOs) (Scotland, historical) A cry of "gardyloo". An act of discarding waste or some other substance from a height. Also attributive#adjective, attributive and figurative. (figurative) caution#noun, caution, warning.

Interjection

{{en-interj}} (Scotland, obsolete) {{non-gloss definition, 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.}}

Alternative forms

gardy loo

Etymology

From Edinburgh {{der, en, sco, gardyloo}}, from a corruption of {{der, en, fr, gardez l'eau, , mind the water}}."" in the Oxford English Dictionary (1898), Oxford: Oxford University Press.