nature call
Body's urgent signal
A nature call is the urge to urinate or defecate—the body's demand that you find a toilet.
The phrase is a gentle euphemism, as if biology were summoning you: I need to answer a nature call.
Also appears as call of nature.
- bathroomRoom for hygiene
- bathroom breakBrief restroom visit
- urgeStrong inner drive
- restroomFacility with toilets
- pit stopBrief maintenance pause
rest stop · wilderness · great outdoors · outdoors · pee · toilet · woods · bushes · urgent · urgent need · privy · instinct · wild · answer · beckoning · summons · response · birdsong
- callslong distance, voicemail, busy signal, dial, redial
- bathroom tripsbathroom break, restroom break, potty break, using the bathroom, peeing
bodily urge type
nature callhunger
Need for nourishment
thirst · appetite · hunger pangs · starvation · craving
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