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ぼっとん便所 (bottonbenjo) Japanese meaning: pit toilet | Kotomora
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ま
だぼっ
とん
便べん
所じょ
が
ある
。
My grandparents' house in the countryside still has a pit toilet.
A ぼっとん便所 is a type of vault toilet that requires periodic emptying.
Kanji 便 convenience, facility, excrement Related words 汲く み 取と り 便べん 所じょ A vault toilet that requires manual or mechanical emptying of the waste tank. ぼっとん便所 is a colloquial, onomatopoeic term for the same type of toilet, emphasizing the dropping sound.
水すい 洗せん 便べん 所じょ A flush toilet. The opposite of a ぼっとん便所 in terms of waste disposal method.
Written forms ぼっとん 便べん 所じょ
Standard mixed kana-kanji spelling.
ボットン 便べん 所じょ
Katakana variant of the mimetic part.
Etymology From the mimetic word ぼっとん (sound of something dropping into water or a pit) + 便所 (toilet). The exact origin is uncertain, but it vividly describes the sound of waste falling into the pit.
