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- (Scotland, obsolete) Used by people 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 as the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
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Meaning
- [Interjection]
- (Scotland, obsolete) Used by people 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 as the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- [Noun]
- (Scotland, historical) A cry of "gardyloo".
- An act of discarding waste or some other substance from a height. Also attributive and figurative.
- (figurative) Caution, warning.
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