latrine rumor
1latrine rumor — [la trin “ruma* ] n. any rumor, especially one that is alleged to spread at the latrine [general toilet facilities]. (Military.) □ Somebody started spreading a latrine rumor about the Colonel’s wife. □ That’s just a latrine rumor. The Colonel… …
2latrine — c.1300, probably from L. latrina, contraction of lavatrina washbasin, washroom, from lavatus, pp. of lavare to wash (see LAVE (Cf. lave)) + trina, suffix denoting workplace. Its reappearance in 1640s is probably a re borrowing from French;… …
3latrine wireless — [la”trin “waia^las] n. the free exchange of information and gossip at the general toilet facilities. (See also latrine rumor.) □ It came over the latrine wireless this morning. We’re all shipping out. □ The latrine wireless was virtually silent… …
4rumor — Synonyms and related words: announce, blab, break the news, breathe, bring word, bruit, bruit about, buzz, canard, chat, circulate, common talk, cry, flying rumor, give a report, give tidings of, gossip, grapevine, hearsay, idea afloat, info,… …
5talk — Synonyms and related words: accent, accents, address, advertise, after dinner speech, air, allocution, analyze, argot, assignment, babble, back fence gossip, balderdash, balls, ballyhoo, bat the breeze, be in connection, be in contact, be… …
6buzz — Synonyms and related words: DDD, Indian file, alert, array, articulation, assibilate, assibilation, bank, bark, bawl, belch, bellow, birr, blare, blat, blubber, bombilate, bombinate, boom, bray, breathe, bruit, bum, bumble, burr, bustle, busy… …
7canard — Synonyms and related words: Cornish hen, artifice, bouncer, broiler, bruit, buzz, caille, caneton, capon, chapon, chicken, common talk, concoction, cry, dindon, dodge, duck, duckling, extravaganza, fable, fabrication, faisan, falsehood, falsity,… …
8cry — Synonyms and related words: PR, adjuration, advertise, alleluia, animal noise, appeal, applaud, applause, ballyhoo, bark, barking, battle cry, bawl, bawling, bay, bell, bellow, bemoan, beseechment, bewail, bid, birdcall, blare, blare forth, blat …
9grapevine — Synonyms and related words: adviser, algae, announcer, annunciator, authority, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, bruit, bush telegraph, buzz, canard, channel, climber, common talk, communicant, communicator, conferva, confervoid, creeper,… …
10hearsay — Synonyms and related words: absolute, adducible, admissible, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, bruit, buzz, canard, certain, circumstantial, circumstantial evidence, collateral evidence, common talk, conclusive, convincing, corpus… …
