Name: 88 Bathroom Vocabulary Words
Uploaded: 2021-07-12T15:27:10.000Z
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.  Let's talk about bathroom vocabulary. 

A great way to remember vocabulary, I know that's  something that's difficult for English learners,  

is to know the words that are around you, to be  able to talk about your daily routine and to talk  

about the items in your house because that's what  you interact with the most. So today I'd like to  

help you build your vocabulary, specifically  for words that are in the bathroom, I'm going  

to be taking you around this bathroom in my house  and explaining all of the vocabulary words that  

exist here. They might not be the same that exists  in your country. So make sure that you let me know  

in the comments, if there are any things that  exist in your bathroom, that don't exist in mine.  

Before we get started, I want to explain some  words that I use to talk about this room. Look at  

these three words: bathroom, restroom, washroom.  I'm from the US and we use only two of these. 

Can you guess which two we use? You just heard  me say one of them. We use bathroom and restroom,  

but there is a difference between these a bathroom  is generally in someone's house in some kind of  

comfortable location. And a restroom is usually  used for a public situation, maybe a restaurant or  

in your office. If you need to go to the bathroom,  you might use this because it feels a little bit  

more formal. It's a little more indirect. It's a  restroom. You don't know what's happening in the  

restroom. I'm just resting. So we use restroom  generally to be a little more polite or to talk  

about bathrooms in a more formal setting. As  for the word washroom, in the US I don't think  

I've ever heard anyone use this. I could be wrong.  It's generally more associated with Canadians. So  

in Canada, they often say washroom. But anytime that I say, this is what  

they say in Canada, this is what they say in  the UK. Please just understand that I am not  

an expert in other types of English. I only know  what I've experienced here in the US. What about  

these words: toilet, loo, John, and water closet.  Well, we do use the word toilet, but we don't use  

it to talk about this room. We never say I'm going  to the toilet. It seems gross, or just too direct.  

And loo, we never say loo in the US. Also John,  we don't really say the word John either. But,  

this expression water closet. If you saw this  sign, what would you think that means? Let's say  

you're at a restaurant and you're looking  for the bathroom and you see this sign on  

a door. Would you know that that's the bathroom? You might be able to guess, but water closet or WC  

is sometimes on a bathroom door. And it just  means that's the bathroom. Now, sometimes we use  

kind of silly words to talk about the bathroom.  For example, you might hear lavatory, powder room,  

girl's room. And these are always, usually said  with that same tone of voice that I just used  

lavatory, this is a very high class way to say  bathroom. So if you are wanting to be a little  

bit silly, you might say, "Excuse me, where's  your lavatory." If you're in your friend's house,  

you might say, that'd be kind of funny. Or you  might say, "I need to go to the powder room  

to freshen up." And I think this is something  that we don't ever say seriously. It's usually  

just kind of as a little joke, "Oh, I need  to go and make sure that there's no food  

in my teeth. I'm going to go to the powder room." Or you might hear the girl's room. And this is not  

just for little girls. This is talking about the  bathroom. If you go to your friend's house and you  

need to go to the bathroom, you might ask where's  the girl's room, but only if you're a girl.  

We don't really say where's the boys room. I think  that maybe this is just because sometimes women  

are more indirect about these types of things.  I'm not sure, but occasionally you will hear these  

silly expressions used with the bathroom. Now  we have two more. What about these two words:  

porta-potty and porta-John, do you have a  porta-potty in your house? I would be very  

shocked. These are, a porta-potty or a porta-John,  usually that's what you would see it at a park  

or maybe if you go to an outdoor concert or  somewhere that doesn't have an actual bathroom  

structure or some kind of restroom outside.  So you might see these types of facilities. 

All right, now that we have cleared all that up.  When you come to the US, you can use bathroom or  

restroom, and let's get onto talking about the  items in my bathroom. Let's start off by talking  

about this. Here we have the sink. Sometimes it's  called a sink basin, but generally that's kind of  

a more formal word. If you're purchasing a  sink, you might see it called a sink basin.  

Also, we have the faucet and the hot water handle,  or the cold water handle. I only have one, but you  

might see some bathrooms that have two, that's  also pretty common. At the bottom, this thing  

inside here, down there is the drain. If  you need to fill the sink, you might say,  

plug the drain. "I need to push that  down, push the drain down so that I can  

plug the drain and fill up the sink with water." And usually, under the sink, you're going to find  

some plumbing. Plumbing are the pipes that bring  the water to your faucet, and then away from your  

drain. Notice that the B here is silent plumb-ing,  plumbing. We're going to be talking about these  

items a little bit later in this lesson. So  let's move on to the next place in the bathroom. 

All right, here we are by the toilet.  One of the features of the bathroom.  

In the US we always call this the toilet. We  don't call the room the toilet, as I mentioned.  

So on the toilet, we have two lids. This  is in the US, we have the lid and we have  

the seat, which can also go up. And this is always  a point of contention in marriages, right? Put  

the seat down. And this is what a lot of wives  say, put the seat down, don't leave the seat up. 

I'm curious if you have ever had this  discussion in your house. Then we have the lid  

and we have here, this is the toilet bowl. You  can imagine a bowl. And back here is the flusher  

or the toilet handle, because we can push this  to flush the toilet. Don't forget to flush the  

toilet when you're finished, to flush the toilet.  Our bathroom, we have installed an extra feature  

on our toilet. It is this thing. It is a bidet.  This is becoming a little more common in the US  

but it is certainly not a well-known feature of  a toilet in the US but because my husband and  

I have lived abroad, we know about bidets,  so we have a bidet installed in our toilet. 

Also around the toilet, you will see there is  a plunger here for helping the toilet to flow  

freely. And we have a toilet brush for cleaning  the toilet, some extra toilet paper, but here, if  

you can see on this side, we have our toilet paper  holder and our toilet paper. I have a question for  

you. Do you have your toilet paper coming over the  top, or do you have it coming from behind. For me,  

I prefer it like this coming from the top, but I  know everyone has different opinions about this.  

Sometimes on the back of the toilet, you  will see a box of tissues. In the US,  

we almost always call these Kleenex. This is  the brand, but it's also just what we generally  

call this type of item. Or for us, we have a  baby, so we have some baby wipes also on the  

back of the toilet. Oh, we have one more thing. This. Do you know what this is? Can you guess?  

It is called a squatty potty. I actually  got this online. I got this from somebody  

in my city online. Somebody online said,  "I'm selling a squatty potty thing that  

you put under your toilet. Does anyone want to  buy it?" And I said, "Me, I want to buy it." So  

I met her at a gas station, kind of felt like  a drug deal because she hopped out of her car.  

She said, "Are you here for the squatty potty?"  I said, "Yes, I am." And I gave her my 10 bucks  

and she gave me the squatty potty and we left.  But this is a kind of a device that helps your  

body supposedly to be in a better position so that  your bowels can move freely. So I'm not sure if it  

actually works or not, but it's something that I  thought was pretty cool. And it was worth the try. 

Next, let's talk about the shower or the tub. Now  in my bathroom here, we have two bathrooms in my  

house, in this bathroom. We do not have a tub.  I didn't feel like cleaning our other bathroom.  

Otherwise I would show you a tub, but this is what  it looks like. Most bathrooms have a tub. And then  

there's also a shower. This bathroom does not have  a shower curtain. A shower curtain is the kind  

of cloth that comes over. Instead, we have these  glass shower doors. You can barely see them in the  

video, but there are glass doors that block the  water from spraying everywhere in our bathroom. 

In our shower, we have a shower head, and  sometimes the shower head is detachable,  

or sometimes it's just fixed on the wall.  There's also a shower handle where you can  

turn on the hot and cold water. I'm not going to  turn that on right now. So I don't get too wet.  

In our shower, we have a squeegee because we  have these glass doors. When they get wet, it's  

good to take care of them and not let the water  accumulate on the sides. So we will squeegee them  

after taking a shower. And this is a  verb and a noun. This is a squeegee,  

and I need to squeegee the doors.  Sometimes I squeegee the walls too.  

This is my three year old son's favorite activity  to squeegee everything. It is pretty fun,  