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Hello
How much it is common?
Do Americans understand what it means?
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Hello
How much it is common?
Do Americans understand what it means?
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I've never heard of it. I would imagine it's a roll of toilet paper though.
 

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This is very common in UK and Raymott is correct :)
 

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It's not a word I'm familiar with, and I'm a lifelong American from the Midwest.
 

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I've never heard this either. Is it common in the UK? A "bog" is a marshy place you grow cranberries. Is it a toilet in the UK? In Australia?
 

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'The bog(s)' was a common word for the lavatories among boys when I was at school in the fifties and sixties; bogroll was provided, if one was lucky. It was still being used by schoolboys in the nineties; I don't know if it is common today.
 

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'The bog(s)' was a common word for the lavatories among boys when I was at school in the fifties and sixties; bogroll was provided, if one was lucky. It was still being used by schoolboys in the nineties ...
What? The same bogroll?
 

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Born and raised in USA, never heard this.
 

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I've never heard this either. Is it common in the UK? A "bog" is a marshy place you grow cranberries. Is it a toilet in the UK? In Australia?

I don't hear it used that much nowadays.
 

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Hi. I have a question. I do not understand slang. Can you tell me what the word Kurin?
For example, in this sentence: nah just been kurin her. Please help.
 

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Hi. I have a question. I do not understand slang. Can you tell me what the word Kurin?
For example, in this sentence: nah just been kurin her. Please help.

Please create new topics for your questions.

Anyhow, there is no such word. Are you sure it wasn't "curing"?
 

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We call the toilet 'the bog' in England.
Other expressions for toilet:

the khazi
the throne
the pan

how many others do you know...?
 
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