Who came up with the word toilet?

Question

This is a really random question, but I have a friend that would like to know.

Or if not who, then when did it get the name toilet.

Answer 1

German inventor named crap. 1st it was called the crapper

Answer 2

Seated toilets with drainage systems date back to 2500 B.C..

However, it seems the idea of toilets went down the drain until the mid-1700s. The first valve-type flush toilet was introduced in 1738 by a man named J.F. Brondel.

Of course, the "water closet" had been invented 150 years earlier by John Harrington, and the valve toilet would undergo many serious revisions before it came to resemble the modern bathroom fixture we use today.
Strangely, there was one name that didn't appear anywhere in the fascinating document: Thomas Crapper. We'd long heard stories about the toilet being invented by man named Crapper. Had we been taken in by a schoolyard myth?

Crapper didn't invent the toilet, but was an English plumber from the late 1800s who held nine patents for plumbing products.

Answer 3

This usage (first used 1695) comes from the Middle French toilette (diminutive of toile, "cloth") and meant either a cloth which was put over the shoulders while dressing the hair or shaving or a cloth on which washing and shaving equipment was laid out. Toile itself comes from the Latin tela. This is thought to be a contraction of a possible earlier word: texla and, if so, toilet would then be related to our text and textile.

In time, however, the meaning of toilet was extended by euphemism. Now, we might even say "Oh no, the dog has gone to the toilet in the living room!" and no one would imagine that Fido had voluntarily taken a bath (much less a shave). Note that he could have gone to the lavatory (Latin lavatorium, from lavare, "to wash") or bathroom with no change of meaning.

Answer 4

The word 'toilet' originally did not mean what it means today. Toiletries (today) are objects and tools used for primping and 'beautification', as it were, and would apply to a woman's brush, make-up, perfume, sanitary items (like tampons and face wash, nail polish remover etc) and all or most things regarding the woman's personal hygiene and vanity. 'Toilet' (in all it's gramatical forms) used to refer to the place where a woman did her 'toiletery', which was making use of all the things mentioned above. So the word 'toilet' has come from meaning the preperation process a woman goes through- including sanitation, hygiene and vanity- to meaning the tools she used to DO these things, to meaning WHERE she does these things. So "toilet" is most probably a reference to where the ladies used to primp- in the 'washing room'.

Answer 5

A German inventor, named John Crapper (no lie) John Crapper... so even so, the stool (another proper name), hence toilets have Been called the "John". Seriously, I think it is French

Answer 6

Who else but the FRENCH would use a word that means aromatic fragrance (toilette) to describe a poop stool...better check out all of your perfume bottles that say eau de toilette
EEEEUUWWWWW

Answer 7

The french. They came up with everything smelling of garlic and wine! Wankers.

Answer 8

The person who had to take a dump and sat on something and it worked,lol. And he said look a tiolet!

Answer 9

hmmm.
maybe it was a Frenchman named,
Monsieur Toilet ... who cut a hole in a
piece of wood and yelled;
monoplace !!! ( single-seater )
and said in a low voice;
contentement passe richesse,
meaning;
contentment surpasses riches !!
But i'am only guessing so don't quote me !!

Answer 10

This is a horrible qustion.
Who would know?