# porcelain bus

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A toilet bowl.

## Etymology
From it being imagined that when gripping the sides of the bowl while vomiting into it that it's like a bus driver gripping the steering wheel of a bus (a bus steering wheel being roughly horizontal, as opposed to a car which has it up at an angle).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/porcelain-bus