privy
pri vee
- n a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- n a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
- s hidden from general view or use
a privy place to rest and think - s (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known
privy to the details of the conspiracy
- Pensioned off with handsome privy purses, some of the maharajahs retired to dream of past glories.
- Not so in this movie, where they are poised on Munichs rooftops, privy to every conversation, every stupid idea and intention going on below, but powerless to intervene.
- Occasion was the dedication of the 100,000th sanitary pit privy built by relief workers in West Virginia.