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单词 pothouse
释义

pothousen.

Brit. /ˈpɒthaʊs/, U.S. /ˈpɑtˌ(h)aʊs/
Forms: see pot n.1 and house n.1 and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pot n.1, house n.1
Etymology: < pot n.1 + house n.1
1. A house where pots of ale or the like are served; a tavern, a public house.Sometimes with disparaging connotations.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house
houseOE
tavern1297
tavern-housea1400
sunc1400
tap-house1500
tippling-housea1549
innsc1550
bousing-inn1575
ivy-bush1576
osteria1580
ordinary1590
caback1591
taberna1593
bousing-house1594
pothouse1598
red lattice1604
cupping-house1615
public house1617
busha1625
Wirtshaus1650
bibbery1653
cabaret1656
gaming ordinary1667
public1685
shop1695
bibbing-housea1704
dram-shop1725
gill house1728
rum shop1738
buvette1753
dram-house1753
grog-shop1790
wine-vault1791
pub1800
pulperia1818
pulqueria1822
potation-shop1823
rum hole1825
Wirtschaft1834
drunkery1836
pot shop1837
drinkery1840
rum mill1844
khazi1846
beer-shop1848
boozer1895
rub-a-dub1898
Weinstube1899
rubbity-dub1905
peg house1922
rub-a-dub-dub1932
rubbity1941
Stube1946
superpub1964
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Scórza..also taken for a base alehouse, tipling-house, or such pot-house.
a1658 J. Cleveland Lenten Litany ix From the Nick and Froth of a Penny Pot-house, Libera nos.
1724 London Gaz. No. 6320/3 A large well built accustomed Pot-House,..known by the Name of the Hermitage Pot-House.
1748 T. Warton Oxf. Ale 27 To pot-house I repair, the sacred haunt, Where, Ale, thy votaries in full resort Hold rites nocturnal.
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 346 The pot-houses met with a variety of unexpected customers.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xii. 222 The paragon of all pothouses.
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady iii. 92 They were extremely capable men, but they could not keep from the pot-house.
1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 401/2 A fellow who had specialized in the rhapsody did clog-dances in pothouses, passing his hat.
1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xii. 83 He entered the pothouse where he usually ate when he had money and often slept.
2. A building or establishment where pottery is made or kept.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > pottery
pottery1480
pothouse1673
potwork1681
piggery1818
mug-house1841
bank1843
pot-bank1888
1673 11 July in Privy Council Reg. (PRO PC 2/64) 59 The humble Petition of Henry Parker Holland China maker at Lambeth..Complayning against Sir John Robinson for demolishing the Pothouse.
1697 London Gaz. No. 3300/4 A very convenient Brick House to be let, having a Potthouse belonging to it, and a very fine Yard for Washing of Clay.
1749 Pennsylvania Gaz. 10 Jan. 2/3 (advt.) A good pot-house, a kiln and kiln-house..and all utensils fitting and necessary for the business of a potter.
1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 95/2 A premium to..master of the stone pot-house at Fulham for..making crucibles of British materials.
1971 Country Life 17 June 1529/2 The famous Samson pothouse in Paris produced brilliant copies of whatever ceramics were in favour at any given time.
2003 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 23 May c3 There were 80 residential structures, along with pot houses and a number of storage granaries.

Compounds

C1. With the senses ‘such as might be expected in a pothouse (sense 1)’, ‘characteristic of or suggestive of a pothouse’ (esp. in being vulgar, amateurish, or disreputable).Often with reference to cheap oratory or demagoguery, esp. in pothouse politician.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > vulgar
knavishc1405
peoplisha1425
porterlike1568
mechanical1584
souterly1589
tapsterly1589
mechanic1598
porterly1603
tavernly1612
plebeian1615
vulgar1643
mobbish1695
pothouse1780
commonish1792
common1804
vulgarian1833
vulgarish1860
unselect1867
off-colour1875
1780 Reformer ii. 24 To alienate the affections of the People from our present Sovereign, the pot-house politicians are instructed to accuse his Majesty of Popery.
1816 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 16 275 The class of men for whom these pot-house epistles are written, read nothing else.
1841 Times 31 Dec. 5/6 The most furious among the pot-house orators of the day, persons who had been employed in deluding and maddening the people.
1895 J. Hollingshead My Lifetime I. xiii. 124 There was no pot-house bluster about the two combatants.
1924 E. Wharton False Dawn iii. 51 Certain blasphemous penny-a-liners whose poetic ravings are said to have given them a kind of pothouse notoriety.
1947 T. A. Bailey Woodrow Wilson & Great Betrayal v. 83 The pothouse politician, who sees only one move at a time, brands anyone an idealist who spurns the short-run advantage in favor of the larger, less immediate gain.
1997 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. b31/2 Still life..was thought of as pot-house painting.
C2. General attributive.
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1797 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 289 [A carpenter was paid for] casing pot house doors.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxvii. 149 Reeking yet with pot-house odours.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. v. 95 The old abundant city-fare was best,..down to the loll itself O' the pot-house settle,—better such a bench Than [etc.].
1956 P. O'Brian Golden Ocean v. 70 I obviously cannot batter him about like a footman in a pot-house brawl.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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