duty n.
in an institutional context, one who is on duty.
![]() | Secret Barrister 48: A man with a gleaming head [...] was accosting each suit that walked by: ‘Are you the duty?’ ‘‘Scuze mate, are you the duty?’. |
In phrases
to urinate, to defecate.
![]() | Call It Sleep (1977) 100: Step up close an’ do yer dooty, sonny me boy. | |
![]() | Dict. of Obscenity etc. 20: Business Shit [...] Other euphemisms comparable in their evasiveness include do one’s duty, take the dog for a walk. | |
![]() | Life in the French Foreign Legion 82: In certain regions of France [...] there is a propensity towards squat toilets. [...] Ordinarily you adopt a skier’s stance over the hole and try to maintain it until you’ve done your duty. |