Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (mainly Scot.) a lavatory.

1939		‘Neville Shute’ What Happened to Corbetts (1968) 113: ‘There’s another in the forecastle, asleep.’ ‘Over the lavvy,’ explained Phyllis.
1955		D. Niland Shiralee 10: She [...] locks them in the lavvy when they eat all the cakes.
1962		B. McGhee Cut and Run (1963) 95: ‘Could ye go a jag?’ he asked [...] ‘C’mon inty the lavvy. Ah’ve a boattle of “scud” here.’.
1977		(con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 9: Your ‘lavvy’ and your coal house were at the bottom of the yard.
1981		T. Wilkinson Down and Out 169: My advice is never follow him into the lavvy, the smell would probably kill you.
1995		I. Rankin Let It Bleed 144: I’d leave you to squat on the pan and send your career down the lavvy like the night before’s kebab.
1998		A. Warner Sopranos 213: What? Drowned hisself down the lavvy pan?
2000		Indep. Rev. 19 Feb. 20: The lavvies should be free of pong.
2009		L. McIlvanney All the Colours 68: The stink of shit from the stairhead lavvies.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 75: Ah banged up in the lavvy in the Grapes.
2018		I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers 4: I push past her and tear into the lavy.

2. life.

2023

R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 4: An una-in-a-lavvytime lucrative share.