单词 | pothouse |
释义 | pothousen. 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. ΚΠ 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. 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