单词 | doghole |
释义 | dogholen. A hole fit only for a dog; a place unfit for human habitation; a wretched or mean place or dwelling. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > vile or miserable hell-holec1400 dogholec1450 cabin1594 sty1605 hole1616 hogsty1688 gourbi1738 rathole1770 pigsty1798 hell's kitchen1827 den1836 kennel1837 pigpen1872 rural slum1886 c1450 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 138 (MED) The sory doghole of Pount melank. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 266v A beggerie litle toune..in the mountaignes of Sauoye,..in that dog hole also wer sedicions and quereles. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse Ep. Ded. sig. ☞4 The Schoole which I builde, is narrowe, and at the first blushe appeareth but a doggehole. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 270 France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits, The tread of a mans foot. View more context for this quotation 1641 W. Prynne Humble Petition 6 Adiudged to perpetuall close imprisonment in..Carnarvan castle in North-wales, a Nasty Dog-hole. 1685 S. Wesley Maggots (new ed.) 109 From Dog-hole of Lodging one Morning I sally'd. 1726 J. Swift Let. to Sheridan 8 July in Misc. (1745) X. 99 You all live in a wretched, dirty Dog-hole and Prison. 1762 G. Colman Musical Lady ii. 24 Chambers! chambers, d'ye call them?—Kennels, dog-holes. 1794 J. P. Kemble Lodoiska ii. 29 Let's go back, and try if we can hinder their seeing, that we have broke out of the dog-hole they lock'd us in. 1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. I. 324 The goblin cave was a mere dog-hole. 1864 G. C. Oxenden Let. 1 Aug. in C. Darwin Corr. (2001) XII. 294 Our Dog-hole of an Earth. 1886 L. Morris Gycia iii. ii. 397 There may be a new King and a new Queen, and we shall leave this dog-hole and live at home like gentlemen once more. 1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 95/1 You chaps don't meet each other, tucked away in dog-holes the way you all are. 1955 G. Mattingly Renaissance Diplomacy xvii. 162 The last English war across the Channel had cost more than twenty such ungracious dog-holes as its conquest, Thérouanne, would be worth. 1995 Playboy (Nexis) Jan. 98 Never hit anybody with your fists. They only do that in movies and certain doghole saloons in Texas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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