#gardyloo

[lumber]

Gardyloo! Now with more Petunia Pig! Yesterday (Day 2 of #WonderCon2025), Xavi and I caught the fabulous #CandiMilo at the absolutely PACKED panel she was in- Cartoon Voices! We bumped into one another before her panel and I gifted her a one of a kind copy of my new zine, #Gardyloo w/ an original handdrawn #PetuniaPig on the cover! ❤️🐖💕

[fry-la]

[southwestcollectionarchives]

“Gardyloo” was a folk music fanzine launched in April 1959 by writer and editor Lee Hoffman. Features centered around the folk scene in New York’s Greenwich Village, promoting local musicians unique to the area. The etymology of the title is derived from the French “garde à l’eau,” meaning “take heed of the water.” The meaning morphed in the medieval period where residents in crowded areas would call out “Gardyloo” as a warning cry “before one dumped a bucket of slop out of an upstairs window.” Though Hoffman believed her words were akin to dumping slop on the masses, post “Gardyloo,” she wrote more than twenty science fiction and western novels and earned several awards for her work.

Seven issues of “Gardyloo” are available here: https://hdl.handle.net/10605/353022

[kimlouiseifyouplease]

World of Words

If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? Hello my friend, What a conundrum I have over this quest

[allenafol]

Word Of The Day, Day 78! Today's word is Gardyloo! This is an old Edinburgh word shouted from a window to warn people below that your slop bucket was about to be poured out 💩💩💩 #wordoftheday #gardyloo #slopbucket #legomoc #moc #lego #afol #allenafol #legopic #legophotography #legoart #legolove #legolife #legostagram #instalego #instapic #picoftheday (at Compstall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQowrgNpNWM/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bobmccullochny]

Craziest Words in the Dictionary

Gardyloo. This is actually a Scottish term, but it sounds really nifty! The definition is a funny and gross one; this is what people living in Edinburgh shouted out their windows as a warning before dumping their slop buckets out of their windows. At least they gave a little bit of a warning to those below!

[quirkycrazystuff-blog]

Kripaya Holi par paani faikne se pehle chilaae GARDYlOO #gardyloo #quirkycrazygyaan #quirkycrazy

[etherealfenix]

gardyloo : (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets. Today is St. Andrew's Day, Scotland's official national day.

Wiktionary word of the day, November 30, 2015 - http://ift.tt/1loGuMt