| 单词 | piss-house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspiss-house piss-house n. an outside toilet, a privy; (also) a lavatory; (in extended use) a police station, a lock-up (in quot. 1665 used as an insulting name). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > specific outside piss-house1665 dunnekin1790 earth closet1863 garden house1888 dunny1924 long drop1963 1665 Narr. Case John Porter, Jun. in N. B. Shurtleff Rec. Governor & Company of Massachusetts Bay in New Eng. (1853–4) IV. 216 He called his mother Rambeggur, Gammar Shithouse, Gammar Pissehouse..& these abusive names he vsed frequently. 1931 Amer. Speech 7 112 Piss-house, n., the police station. 1937 D. Jones In Parenthesis iv. 94 Better see the gaffer—a bit along be the piss-house next the Gas-post—most like. 1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: Orig. Scroll (2007) 189 A couple of negro characters whispered in my ear about tea... The connection came in and motioned me to the cellar pisshouse. 1991 I. Sinclair Downriver i. 7 A pisshouse, half-demolished; a municipal jeu d'esprit, with green tile pagoda roof. < as lemmas |
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