单词 | one-holer |
释义 | > as lemmasone-holer one-holer n. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) a rudimentary outside toilet having one hole. ΚΠ 1941 P. G. Wodehouse Berlin Broadcasts (1961) ii. 269 In the corner by the door is a tap with a basin the size of a saucer under it, and beyond that what Chic Sale in his famous book The Specialist calls ‘a family one-holer’ [the term is not found in Sale's book]. 1959 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 28 7/1 In such poor mountain districts as Kentucky's Eighth Congressional..the ancient and honourable ‘one-holer’—outside—still reigns supreme as the would-be philosopher's stool. 1992 W. Stewart Hole in One xxxi. 222 Most of the old boathouses had had these one-holers, although I can't imagine that anyone ever used them. < as lemmas |
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