Micturate Urinate Mik Chuh Rayt Mik Tuh Verb Intr Latin Micturire

micturate /MIK-chuh-rayt, MIK-tuh-/

verb intr.

To urinate.

[From Latin micturire (to want to urinate), from meiere (to urinate). Ultimately from the Indo-European root meigh- (to urinate), which also gave us mist, thrush, and mistletoe. Earliest documented use: 1842.]

“Michael Owen, formerly a soccer player, will not spend a penny unnecessarily. ‘Don’t care how much I’m bursting,’ he tweets, ‘I refuse to pay 20p to have a wee at a train station.’

One applauds his thriftiness while simultaneously wondering what he does in the circumstances to relieve himself. One also wonders when he found himself in this frightful situation. When last I needed to micturate on railway premises, the going rate was an inflation-busting, wallet-hammering 30p.” - Alan Taylor; How Would Rabbie Burns Vote in the Referendum?; Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland); Feb 9, 2014.