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单词 henhouse
释义

henhousen.

Brit. /ˈhɛnhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈhɛnˌ(h)aʊs/
Forms: see hen n.1 and house n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hen n.1, house n.1
Etymology: < hen n.1 + house n.1Earlier currency in sense 1 is perhaps implied by use as a Middle English surname, Edward de Henhous (1316).
1. A small building in which chickens are kept.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > poultry-house
roostlOE
hencote1371
henhouse1429
poultry house1552
hen roosta1567
roosting place1577
hennery1833
scratching-shed1902
1429 Feoffment 24 Feb. (W. Yorks. Archive, Bradford: SpSt/4/11/86/13) f. 1 Cum vno paruo cotagio in eadem villa vocato le henhous'.
1512–13 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 105 Eidem pro..bordyng lez henhowse.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 162v Let the front of your Henne house stand alwayes towards the East.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. v. 24 Your hen-house, and roomes for other fowles, fashioned fowre square like a towre.
1740 Lady Throckmorton in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 120 You'll find me as errant a country Joan as ever frequented a hen-house or dairy.
1887 A. Sergeant Jacobi's Wife III. vi. 85 A little deserted building which had once been used as a hen-house.
2019 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 23 Poultry farmers increase the amount of artificial light in their henhouses during the winter months.
2. figurative. A house or workplace dominated by women.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people
grass house1557
woman-house1566
fishing-house1676
family house1727
henhouse1785
women-house1792
bachelor('s) hall1841
bachelor-apartment1857
garçonnière1927
bachelor1968
bachelorette1973
pit house1974
squat1975
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Hen house, a house where the woman rules.
1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxi. 233 She's got two daughters... I'm heading for the hen-house.
1963 P. Moyes Murder à la Mode ii. 29 ‘You know what this place is, don't you, sir?’ The sergeant was plunged in gloom. ‘Fashion magazine. Ruddy hen-house.’
2011 @ccaldx7 21 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Cake time @ work! happy birthday to the only male in our office! #henhouse.

Phrases

P1. fox (also wolf) in the henhouse: a sly, treacherous, or deceitful person, esp. one who is secretly acting against the interests of the community or organization to which he or she belongs; an enemy infiltrator.
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1871 A. Mayhew Cupid's Diary i, in Musical World 23 Dec. 816/1 Lady R. Do you not see a friend of yours? Sir B. A friend! what has he been saying against me? Lady R. Captain Evelyn..! Sir B. (aside), The fox in the hen house!
1979 ABC News Transcripts (Nexis) 25 Oct. I would always be afraid of having the fox in the hen house when it comes to Ronald Reagan trying to deal with Social Security.
2006 J. Jakes Gods of Newport xxxi. 227 It was hard to imagine the mild-mannered and genteel bachelor as the wolf in the henhouse, but those in Newport who spread racy tittle-tattle did their best to promote the idea.
P2. to put the fox in charge of the henhouse and variants: to put a person in charge of an endeavour that he or she has an interest in exploiting, manipulating, or undermining.
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1883 Edinb. Evening News 28 May Appointing such an association to administer the Act was like appointing a number of foxes to see that the henhouse was not pillaged.
1969 Baltimore Afro-American 29 Apr. 7/4 It has never been good practice to put the wolf in charge of the hen house to protect it from other wolves.
2018 Prince George (Brit. Columbia) Citizen (Nexis) 31 Mar. a6 If governments demand that social-media firms police themselves, aren't we putting the fox in charge of the henhouse?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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