[3] The Speibecken is often a large ceramic bowl installed at waist height with handles for the user to hold onto and a shower head to flush the unit.
[5] Speibecken comes from the German speien ("to spit" but also "to vomit") and Becken ("bowl, basin").
[6][7] The term also has the meaning of the traditional spittoon, used by tobacco chewers or in dentist's surgeries.
[2][4] In Vietnam they are called bồn ói [nôn], meaning "puke sink".
The shower head fixed nearby to flush the Speibecken is also nicknamed "large white telephone".