Brewer has a wonderful citation from Smollett’s ‘Humphry Clinker’:

"At ten o’clock at night the whole cargo of the chamber utensils is flung out of a back window that looks into some street or lane, and the maid calls "Gardy loo" to the passengers."

Smollett doesn’t record any response from the ‘passengers’.

A great way to start the day (see the ‘se’nnight’ post)