bathoom
Bathroom, said with the r softened or dropped.
Also called bathroom, bath room.
Updated September 21, 2026
bathoom pronunciation
/BATH-oom/
Meaning
Same room as bathroom. The spelling just catches how it sounds when the r thins out and the middle squashes together. People who say bathoom still write bathroom on forms. You hear it in casual Southern and Appalachian talk, especially when somebody is in a hurry to find the door.
How folks use it
- “Where's your bathoom at?”
- “We didn't get a bathoom till the sixties.”
Origin and etymology
Not a separate root word. It is bathroom spoken fast, with the r reduced the way some regional accents do. Dialect spellings write what the ear catches. Same family of sound spellings as winder for window. Exact first print date is hard to pin because writers usually correct it on the page.
Frequently asked questions
Is bathoom a different word from bathroom?
No. Same meaning. Bathoom is how the word often sounds in relaxed speech.