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单词 backhouse
释义

backhousen.

Brit. /ˈbakhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈbækˌhaʊs/
Forms: see back- comb. form and house n.1 and int.; also (English regional) 1800s backas, 1800s back-ouze, 1800s bakhus, 1800s– backus.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: back- comb. form, house n.1
Etymology: < back- comb. form + house n.1In early use and in regional use sometimes difficult to distinguish from bakehouse n.
1. The rear part of a house, or a subsidiary building situated to the rear of the main premises of a house, esp. one used for a specific purpose, as a wash house, storage space, etc. Chiefly regional in later use (now rare).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > additional or separate part > at rear
back-building1535
backhouse1557
1557 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1875) III. 17 To abstene..fra all melting..of talloun within thair bak hous.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. ix. 340 Bayth hall, chalmer, baghous, barne and byre.
1652 in C. H. Mayo Munic. Rec. Borough of Dorchester (1908) 611 It is agreed by this Company that the back house at the parsonage new house should be forthwith taken downe and sold.
1710 London Gaz. No. 4637/4 A well built Brick House, with a Back-house and other Buildings behind.
1779 Deed in W. Newnam Compl. Conveyancer 548 All taxes, rates, and parish duties, to be paid for the said messuage or dwelling-house, shop, warehouse, back-house, room and premises.
1803 T. Smith Wonders Nature & Art VII. ii. 211 In these back-houses strangers are usually lodged and entertained; in them the sons of the family are permitted to keep their concubines.
1888 B. L. Burnett From Stable Boy xxvii. 148 I was layving..without going to the zider cask in the back-houze.
1979 G. Cooper Deserted Island 28 Cold Winter's sun has set, and it is night, And from the old ‘back-house’ a cheerful light Falls on the door yard snows, and wood shed near.
2. North American. A small building or room containing a toilet, esp. one which is behind or outside a main building. Cf. outhouse n. 2.Perhaps also compare earlier in (the) backhouse ditch at Phrases, which may allude to a cesspit.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun]
gongOE
privy?c1225
room-housec1275
chamber foreignc1300
wardrobea1325
privy chamberc1325
foreignc1390
siegec1400
stool1410
jakes1432
house of easementa1438
kocayc1440
siege-hole1440
siege-house1440
privy house1463
withdraught1493
draught1530
shield1535
bench-hole1542
common house1542
stool1542
jakes house1547
boggard1552
house of office?1560
purging place1577
little house1579
issue1588
Ajax1596
draught-house1597
private1600
necessary house1612
vault1617
longhouse1622
latrine1623
necessary1633
commonsa1641
gingerbread officea1643
boghouse1644
cloaca1645
passage-house1646
retreat1653
shithouse1659
closet of ease1662
garderobe1680
backside1704
office1727
bog?1731
house of ease1734
cuz-john1735
easing-chair1771
backhouse1800
outhouse1819
netty1825
petty1848
seat of ease1850
closet1869
bathroom1883
crapper1927
lat1927
shouse1941
biffy1942
shitholec1947
toot1965
shitter1967
woodshed1974
1800 Amer. Rev. Apr. 294/1 The back houses in a city are, in many respects, a terrible nuisance.
1864 Littell's Living Age 3rd Ser. 27 377/1 Just before we left Atlanta, one of our men with diarrhœa went to the back house.
1887 Druggists' Ready Ref. (Morrisson, Plummer & Co.) 643 This should be used freely in drains, cesspools, back-houses, stables, [etc.].
1922 Hot Dog Jan. 10 ‘Well’, he says, ‘I'm so used to drinking my beer in the backhouse since Prohibition that I wouldn't enjoy it unless I had the odor to go with it.’
1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) ii. 42 It was a beautiful old backhouse, pale pink stucco with a tile roof overgrown with vines.
1985 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 Nov. a2 During the Depression, I cleaned out backhouses in the east end for 15 cents each.
2003 M. Wilson City Slicker Chicken ix. 26 When the catalogue was placed in the backhouse, its end was imminent; toilet paper as we know it was nonexistent then.

Phrases

in (the) backhouse ditch: in a bad state or situation, ruined. Obsolete.
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1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 17 in Rocke of Regard When they both in backhouse ditch are brought, To poule them both, let some deuise be wrought.
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 724 The intercession by Angels lyeth (as they say) in the backhouse ditch.
1649 T. Wincoll Plantagenets Tragicall Story ii. 121 I'le swear him Bankrupt, in the backhouse ditch.

Compounds

General attributive (now chiefly in sense 2), as backhouse boy, backhouse chamber, backhouse door, etc.Recorded earliest in attributive use in in (the) backhouse ditch at Phrases.
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1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 17 in Rocke of Regard When they both in backhouse ditch are brought, To poule them both, let some deuise be wrought.
1763 Gentleman's Mag. June 297/1 Cleobold and Riches, the two maids, lay in the back-house chamber.
1793 J. Woodforde Diary 3 Mar. (1929) IV. 12 It..blowed out part of the back-House Chamber Window.
1850 Express 4 Sept. 4/1 She was near the swill cistern and the men were sitting by the backhouse door.
1896 F. Hall in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 116/1 Backhouse boy, scullery boy.
1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle xvii. 161 None of that backhouse talk when Molly Scarf gets here.
1944 A. Jobson Suffolk Yesterdays v. 75 A mat for the backus door.
2009 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. a1 Warm pee freezes almost instantly, growing as an icy stalagmite in the backhouse pit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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