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To: lostboy61

I find period terms much more interesting.

I learned “Chunderbucket” from watching “Turn” on AMC. A chunderbucket was an indoor crap bucket. The name came from when they were used at sea. When a sailor prepared to dump the crap bucket overboard he would yell “watch under” so nobody would have their head out a porthole. Watch under was shortened to Chunder.


24 posted on 01/26/2015 8:47:51 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

“Chunderbucket”

Kind of like the old word “Thundermug”. A pee pot used with the weather is bad.

HEY! I still use one of those! OK, really a large pickle jar with a lid.


47 posted on 01/26/2015 10:13:03 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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