Privy is an old-fashioned term for an outdoor toilet, often known as an

outhouse An outhouse is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers a toilet. This is typically either a pit latrine or a bucket toilet, but other forms of dry toilet, dry (non-flushing) toilets may be encountered. The term may als ...

and by many other names. Privy may also refer to: *

Privy council A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word "privy" means "private" or "secret"; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the mon ...

, a body that advises the head of state * Privy mark, a small mark in the design of a coin * Privy Purse, the British sovereign's private income

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