thunderbox

/ ˈθʌndəˌbɒks /

noun

1. a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
2. any portable lavatory

Example Sentences

Much like deaf writer Genevieve Barr's unflinching story, Thunderbox.

From BBC

Young men, about to go to war, had written their names in pencil on the whitewashed walls of the Thunderbox Room; there was a pets’ graveyard, a pioneering kiwi-fruit vine, a head gardener’s tea kettle, and a pineapple pit, heated with fresh manure.

From The New Yorker

And a very good-natured gentleman and lady they were, though they were heathens; and talked quite pleasantly to Tom about his travels, till the Powwow man arrived, with his thunderbox under his arm.

From Project Gutenberg

And he rattled, thumped, brandished his thunderbox, yelled, shouted, raved, roared, stamped, and danced corrobory like any black fellow; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox, and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks, and sallaballas, with such a horrid din, clatter, clank, roll, rattle, and roar, that the little boy turned up the whites of his eyes, and fainted right away.

From Project Gutenberg

Only PG Wodehouse and the joyous "thunderbox" moment in Evelyn Waugh's Sword Of Honour have made me laugh more.

From The Guardian