The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dunny \Dun"ny\, a. Deaf; stupid.[Prov. Eng.]
My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce
know how to manage.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context Australia New Zealand slang English) A toilet, often outside and rudimentary. (From 1933.) 2 (context Scottish and northern English slang dated English) An outside toilet, or the passageway leading to it; ''(by extension)'' a passageway or cellar. Etymology 2
a. (context UK dialect English) deaf; stupid.
Wikipedia
Dunny is Australian slang for a toilet.
Dunny may also mean:
- Dunny (toy), a vinyl toy by Kidrobot
- Dunny Goode (1929–2004), head football coach for Eastern New Mexico University
- "Dunny", nickname for Fred Dunlap (1859–1902), 19th century baseball player and manager
- "Dunnies", nickname for the Whitby Dunlops, a Canadian Major League Hockey team
A Dunny is a type of vinyl designer toy created by Paul Budnitz and Tristan Eaton, and produced by Kidrobot since 2004.
The toy is based on a rabbit figure with distinctive tubular ears. The origin of the name Dunny came from a combination of street slang and one of the early "Devil Bunny" prototypes. The Dunny is sold in 3-, 8- and 20-inch scales, though artists have customized Dunny models as tall as four feet. The toy has three points of articulation; a 360-degree rotational head and two arms. Some come with accessories, such as laser guns, ice cream cones, marker pens, Geisha fans, gas masks, crowns and hooded sweatshirts. Artist cards or stickers are also included, mainly with the annual series releases. Other (often themed) series releases typically include only a leaflet with the designs from that series. The buying and trading of Dunnys has reached to eBay and beyond.
Usage examples of "dunny".
If the bulbs blew in the dunnies, Mr Cribbage would sigh with irritation and change them.
As mischance would have it, one night Mrs Cribbage needed to go at the same time as Patsy, and she caught her with Red Dog, strolling out of the dunny in the moonlight.
Past intervening tables where breachers of contracts socialize like friends, Ethan Truman sits on a stool at the bar, in profile to Dunny, staring into a glass that might contain high-quality Scotch.
The cube sugar was wrapped in pretty white paper with Castor printed on it, and every time we put it in our coffee I suppose we enriched our dear friend Boy Staunton, so clear in the memory of Dunny and myself, because he came from our town, though I didn't know that at the time.