Meaning of Urinal of the Planets | Babel Free

Definitions

Derogatory name for Ireland: an island and country in northwestern Europe.

UK, derogatory, obsolete, rare

Examples

“A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland's wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Planets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.)”

“'I thought you would have preferred to have been with them in that stinking urinal of the planets, looking for bog-oranges.' Kempe's sympathy towards the plight of the Irish was well known, and he had no sympathisers here tonight.”

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