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# potty

«potty» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small plastic seat-bowl that a toddler uses as a toilet…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a potty, potties); adjective (potty, pottier, pottiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small plastic seat-bowl that a toddler uses as a toilet while learning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#m1)

2) (informal) «Go potty» means go to the toilet (said to little children). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#m2)

3) (UK informal) Slightly crazy or silly: My grandma's gone potty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#m3)

4) (UK informal) «Potty about» means very keen on: She's potty about horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#m4)

5) A «potty mouth» (US slang) is someone who swears a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In family life toddlers do «potty training». In UK speech «potty» also means daft or mad in a gentle, joking way, or crazy about something. In stories a potty professor invents odd machines. Phrases: «potty training», «go potty», «drive someone potty», «potty about», «potty mouth».

### examples

- My baby brother is learning to use the potty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#x1)
- Do you need to go potty before we leave? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#x2)
- All this noise is driving me potty! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#x3)
- She's potty about ponies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#x4)
- The potty inventor made a flying teapot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#x5)
- Mum says I have a potty mouth when I say bad words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#x6)
- Potty training took a few weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/#x7)

### note

Plural: potties. «Potty» meaning crazy is UK/Ireland/Australia informal and mild; do not use it to talk about real mental illness. Similar informal words: dotty, nutty, bonkers.

### In the corpora

- ["Go potty" means use the toilet, said to young children, mostly in the US.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «potty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.