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US
/ˈpɹɪvi/
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[ UK /pɹˈɪvi/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɪvi/ ]
NOUN
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
ADJECTIVE
-
hidden from general view or use
a secluded romantic spot
a privy place to rest and think
a secret garden
a secluded romantic spot -
(followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known
privy to the details of the conspiracy
How To Use privy In A Sentence
- Only three people, including a policeman, will be privy to the facts.
- No one is privy to her despair, her chaos, and her shame. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
- The son having sent his father a messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- I can understand a responsible Liberal minister deciding, ATC, not to open this can, but not without first tipping off the PM and probably not without tipping off the priviest part of the privy council the part that handles national security issues. Kory Teneycke, meet my tire iron.
- Heidi has become quite a little "porker" ... privy to complimentary special search and rescue operations, Pop Tarts, Mocha coffee beans, as well as a free trip back to the glorious Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
- Joe had never been privy to her thoughts and fears and dreams and giggling drunken confessions in the same unguarded way Chrissie had. FALLEN WOMEN
- Earl, a classmate of North's from the Naval Academy, was privy to quite a lot, including the diversion.
- For the unconscionable fellow, owing to this coheirship which he pretends to disesteem, has been made privy to experiences which must not only have been extraordinary to so plain and humdrum a person, but which have been, as I happen to know, of great importance to him, and which -- to put the thing at its highest -- have lifted him, dull dog as he is, into regions where the very dogs have wings. Lore of Proserpine
- The secretary of Elizabeth I's Privy Council is supposed to have submitted the warrant for the execution of Mary Stuart several times, concealed in a pile of lesser bumf, to help the Queen get over the hump. Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)
- As a mere backbencher I'm not privy to negotiations that go on.