blood housen.
/ˈblʌd haʊs/, U.S. /ˈbləd ˌhaʊs/ΚΠ
1385 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 265 [In expensis factis circa pavimentum in le] bludhous.
2. A part of an abattoir in which the blood of slaughtered animals is stored. Now rare and historical.
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1870 Bradford Observer 12 May 5/5 It [sc. the plan] includes the slaughter-house proper, with all the necessary fittings;..a blood house in which all the blood is to be stored.
1904 Ice & Cold Storage Jan. 22/2 The meat market and abattoirs, the blood houses and tripery..were all visited in turn.
1974 T. Olsen Yonnondio (2004) 166 Learning to pant shallow to endure the excrement reek of offal, the smothering stench from the blood house below.
3. slang (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). A public house or hotel noted for violence or rowdiness.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
1913 F. Speiser Two Years with Natives in W. Pacific i. 22 I took up my quarters in the only hotel in Port Vila, the so-called ‘blood-house’, thus named because of its history.
1951 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 13 Jan. 12 For many years its customers earned it the reputation of a ‘blood house’ and the licensee's job of keeping the peace was a hard one.
1977 R. Beilby Gunner 128 I've hauled you out of every boozer and blood house from here to Perth.
2009 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 12 Sept. 53 A pub that, before its gentrification, had a reputation as one of the worst blood-houses in town.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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