shithousen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈʃɪthaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈʃɪtˌ(h)aʊs/

Forms:

α. 1600s shitthouse, 1600s 1800s– shithouse.

β. 1600s– shitehouse Brit. /ˈʃʌɪthaʊs/, U.S. /ˈʃaɪtˌ(h)aʊs/ (now regional).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: shit n., shit v., house n.¹

Etymology: < either shit n. or (especially in β. forms) shit v. + house n.¹

coarse slang.

A. n.

a. A toilet (usually an outdoor one), an outhouse, a privy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun]

gongOE

privy?c1225

room-housec1275

chamber foreignc1300

wardrobea1325

privy chamberc1325

foreignc1390

siegec1400

stool1410

jakes1432

house of easementa1438

kocayc1440

siege-hole1440

siege-house1440

privy house1463

withdraught1493

draught1530

shield1535

bench-hole1542

common house1542

stool1542

jakes house1547

boggard1552

house of office?1560

purging place1577

little house1579

issue1588

Ajax1596

draught-house1597

private1600

necessary house1612

vault1617

longhouse1622

latrine1623

necessary1633

commonsa1641

gingerbread officea1643

boghouse1644

cloaca1645

passage-house1646

retreat1653

shithouse1659

closet of ease1662

garderobe1680

backside1704

office1727

bog?1731

house of ease1734

cuz-john1735

easing-chair1771

backhouse1800

outhouse1819

netty1825

petty1848

seat of ease1850

closet1869

bathroom1883

crapper1927

lat1927

shouse1941

biffy1942

shitholec1947

toot1965

shitter1967

woodshed1974

1659 J. Howell Ital. Prov. Let. Ital. Prov. sig. A4^v, in Παροιμιογραϕια If Florence had a Sea Port, she would make a Hortyard of Pisa, a Counting-house of Ligorn, and a shitt-house of Luca.

1680 Earl of Rochester et al. Poems 135 Some at Shite-house publick (where a Rag always goes) At once emty their Guts.

1795 in G. MacGregor Coll. Writings of Graham (1883) II. 247 For honour of the Scots, we have his [sc. Wallace's] effigy in the shite-houses to this very day.

1865 ‘Philocomus’ Love Feast vi. 62 Rather than kiss those lips of yours..I'd dip my body in the nearest shit-house.

1938 D. Thomas Let. 16 June (1987) 305 There is an earth lavatory and it smells like a shithouse.

1949 K. Amis Lett. (2000) 221 The worst part of life here is the bleeding digs..; the bathroom and shithouse can only be reached through my bedroom (a common Welch arrangement).

1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds ii. 19 ‘Nothing wrong with it—safe as a brick-built shithouse,’ I assured her.

1988 L. Maynard Crum xiv. 136 I hated shithouses. I would never go into one of the huge outhouses behind the school.

2000 R. J. Evans Entertainment iii. 41 He reached up, opened the door, slid into the bathroom... There was someone there. A figure stood in the darkness of the silent shithouse.

b. A wretched place; = shithole n. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant place

galère1756

Tartarus1821

galley1859

hellscape1894

asshole1918

arsehole1926

pisshole1928

shithole1930

shithouse1949

armpit1957

shitbox1966

bumhole1985

1949 H. Miller Sexus (Rosy Crucifixion Vol. I) iv. xvi. 149 You leave the toilet and you step into the big shithouse. Whatever you touch is shitty.

1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp (1998) xvi. 209 I know after she calls and can't get me at the pad she'll check out all the shit-houses [sc. jails].

1981 P. J. Armstrong et al. Ideology & Shop-Floor Industr. Relations vii. 180 I'll not work in this shit-house again.

1989 M. Amis London Fields 24 Crawling through the iodized shithouse that used to be England.

1998 I. Welsh Filth 83 I'm happier by the time we've started up the motor. Just getting out of that shithoose restores your perspective.

2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xii. 130 I've been flyering and postering the bollocks out of this shit-house for a month and still we ain't getting the punters in.

2. A despicable person. Now British.

ΚΠ

1665 Narr. Case of John Porter, Jun. in N. B. Shurtleff Rec. Governor & Company of Mass. Bay in New Eng. (1853–4) IV. 216 He called his mother Rambeggur, Gammar Shithouse, Gammar Pissehouse..& these abusive names he vsed frequently.]

1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy 11 String the bastard up. Fughing Irish shit-'ouse.

1976 T. Griffiths Comedians 63 It's easy to be a bit of a cunt, you've got to work at becoming a shithouse.

1995 Private Eye 20 Oct. 6/1 Fuming, he confronted BBC lobby correspondent David Cornock with the warm greeting: ‘You fucking shithouse. You're always creeping to Flynn.’

1998 C. Aherne et al. Royle Family Scripts: Series 1 (1999) Episode 2. 61 Y'know my Dad'd been dead twenty years tomorrow?.. Mind you, he was a shithouse with me mother.

B. adj.

Contemptible, bad, disgusting; shitty adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective]

blackOE

rotea1382

lousyc1386

unwashed?a1390

fulsomec1390

filthy?c1400

rankc1400

leprousa1425

sicka1425

miry1532

shitten?1545

murrain1575

obscene1597

vicious1597

ketty1607

putrid1628

putredinous1641

foede1657

fulsamic1694

carrion1826

foul1842

shitty1879

scabrous1880

scummy1932

pukey1933

shitting1950

gungy1962

grungy1965

shithouse1966

grot1967

bogging1973

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible

unworthc893

unwrastc893

littleOE

narrow-hearteda1200

wretcha1200

unworthya1240

wretchedc1250

un-i-wrastc1275

bad1276

lechera1300

feeblea1325

despisablea1340

villain1340

contemptiblec1384

lousyc1386

caitiff1393

brothelyc1400

roinousa1425

poor1425

sevenpennyc1475

nasty1477

peakish1519

filthy1533

despectuous1541

beggary1542

scald1542

shitten?1545

disdainfula1547

contemptuous1549

despicable1553

skit-brained?1553

contemniblea1555

vile1560

sluttish1561

queer1567

scornful1570

scallardc1575

tinkerly?1576

worthless1576

beggarly?1577

paltry1578

halfpenny1579

dog bolt1580

pitiful1582

sneaking1582

triobolar1585

wormisha1586

baddy1586

dudgeon1592

measled1596

packstaff1598

roguey1598

roguish1601

contemptful1608

grovelling1608

lightly1608

disdainable1611

purulent1611

snotty-nose1622

vilipendious1630

cittern-headed1638

wormy1640

pissabed1643

triobolary1644

disparageable1648

blue-bellied1652

unestimable1656

scullion1658

piteous1667

dirty1670

shabbed1674

shabby1679

snotty1681

snotty-nosed1682

mucky1683

bollocky1694

scoundrel1700

scaldeda1704

sneaking1703

ficulnean1716

unsolid1731

pitiable1753

scrubby1754

inimitable1798

scrubbish1798

worm-likea1807

small1824

lowlife1827

ketty1828

skunkish1831

yellow-bellied1833

scaly1843

cockroachya1845

wutless1853

nigger1859

trashy1862

low-down1872

cruddy1877

shitty1879

tinhorn1886

blithering1889

motherfucking1890

snidey1890

pilgarlicky1894

shitass1895

shoddy1918

yah boo1921

bitching1929

shit-faced1932

turdish1936

fricking1937

jerk-off1937

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

snot-nosed1941

jerky1944

mother-loving1948

scroungy1948

fecking1952

pissant1952

shit-kicking1953

shit-eating1956

bumboclaat1957

rassclaat1957

shit-headed1959

farkakte1960

shithouse1966

daggy1967

dipshit1968

scuzzy1969

bloodclaat1971

bitch ass1972

wanky1972

streelish1974

twatty1975

twattish1976

dweeby1988

douchey1991

wank1991

cockish1996

1966 C. Bukowski Let. 3 Feb. in Screams from Balcony (1998) 239 The flunky fired from his shithouse job, the guys like me.

1972 G. Morley Jockey rides Honest Race 173 You're probably right..but I still feel shithouse about it.

1973 J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 46 Have you explained all this shithouse philosophy to the rate-payers?

1977 Zigzag Aug. 5/2 If you're banned in town A and then banned in town B, well then town C has just got to ban you or it's, ‘well what kind of shithouse place are you running there, councillor?’

2001 T. Winton Dirt Music (2003) 149 To say you look shithouse would be brown-nosin, said Beaver as she pulled up beside him at the pump.

2003 Empire May 75/1 I tell you, I'm a really shithouse surfer... I lie on the board and I am just crap.

Phrases

P1. to be in the shithouse: = to be in the shitter at shitter n. Phrases 2.

ΚΠ

1962 J. Brooks Henry's War vi. 72 If I don't finish this one within a week I shall be in the shithouse.

1973 J. Breslin World without End 137 If they search us, we're going to be in the shithouse.

a1985 J. Rowles in I. Gitler Swing to Bop (1987) vi. 194 I thought, ‘Jesus, what have I done? Now I'm in trouble. I'm in the shithouse again.’

2007 C. A. Harris Storms xi. 191 Fleetwood Mac's career was definitely not in the shithouse.

Categories »

P2. built like a brick shithouse and variants: see brick n.¹ and adj.¹ Phrases 5.

Compounds

shithouse rat n. a rat inhabiting a privy (used in similes as the typical or extreme example of a quality).

ΚΠ

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 326 Cute as a shithouse rat.

1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp (1998) viii. 131 Yeah, Kid, he lives just around that next corner, in a penthouse. Like I told you he's lucky as a shit-house rat.

1982 D. Arnason 50 Stories & Piece of Advice 25 Elwood Crooke is clean crazy. He scratched his head. Crazy as a shithouse rat, our Elwood.

2009 J. Henry Blood Sunset xxv. 232 You're as shifty as a shithouse rat, you know that?

shithouse rumour n. = latrine rumour at latrine n. Compounds 1.

ΚΠ

1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 67 Even while they referred to any such bit of information as a ‘shithouse rumor’ they spread it even further.

1967 M. Braly On the Yard 340 ‘Shithouse rumor,’ Red said scornfully. ‘The captain's office has him listed for transfer to the pie factory, and that's no rumor.’

1999 D. Hackworth Price of Honor 334 All you had was shithouse rumor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	shithouse
释义	shithousen.adj. Brit. /ˈʃɪthaʊs/, U.S. /ˈʃɪtˌ(h)aʊs/ Forms: α. 1600s shitthouse, 1600s 1800s– shithouse. β. 1600s– shitehouse Brit. /ˈʃʌɪthaʊs/, U.S. /ˈʃaɪtˌ(h)aʊs/ (now regional). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: shit n., shit v., house n.¹ Etymology: < either shit n. or (especially in β. forms) shit v. + house n.¹ coarse slang. A. n. 1. a. A toilet (usually an outdoor one), an outhouse, a privy. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] gongOE privy?c1225 room-housec1275 chamber foreignc1300 wardrobea1325 privy chamberc1325 foreignc1390 siegec1400 stool1410 jakes1432 house of easementa1438 kocayc1440 siege-hole1440 siege-house1440 privy house1463 withdraught1493 draught1530 shield1535 bench-hole1542 common house1542 stool1542 jakes house1547 boggard1552 house of office?1560 purging place1577 little house1579 issue1588 Ajax1596 draught-house1597 private1600 necessary house1612 vault1617 longhouse1622 latrine1623 necessary1633 commonsa1641 gingerbread officea1643 boghouse1644 cloaca1645 passage-house1646 retreat1653 shithouse1659 closet of ease1662 garderobe1680 backside1704 office1727 bog?1731 house of ease1734 cuz-john1735 easing-chair1771 backhouse1800 outhouse1819 netty1825 petty1848 seat of ease1850 closet1869 bathroom1883 crapper1927 lat1927 shouse1941 biffy1942 shitholec1947 toot1965 shitter1967 woodshed1974 1659 J. Howell Ital. Prov. Let. Ital. Prov. sig. A4^v, in Παροιμιογραϕια If Florence had a Sea Port, she would make a Hortyard of Pisa, a Counting-house of Ligorn, and a shitt-house of Luca. 1680 Earl of Rochester et al. Poems 135 Some at Shite-house publick (where a Rag always goes) At once emty their Guts. 1795 in G. MacGregor Coll. Writings of Graham (1883) II. 247 For honour of the Scots, we have his [sc. Wallace's] effigy in the shite-houses to this very day. 1865 ‘Philocomus’ Love Feast vi. 62 Rather than kiss those lips of yours..I'd dip my body in the nearest shit-house. 1938 D. Thomas Let. 16 June (1987) 305 There is an earth lavatory and it smells like a shithouse. 1949 K. Amis Lett. (2000) 221 The worst part of life here is the bleeding digs..; the bathroom and shithouse can only be reached through my bedroom (a common Welch arrangement). 1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds ii. 19 ‘Nothing wrong with it—safe as a brick-built shithouse,’ I assured her. 1988 L. Maynard Crum xiv. 136 I hated shithouses. I would never go into one of the huge outhouses behind the school. 2000 R. J. Evans Entertainment iii. 41 He reached up, opened the door, slid into the bathroom... There was someone there. A figure stood in the darkness of the silent shithouse. b. A wretched place; = shithole n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant place galère1756 Tartarus1821 galley1859 hellscape1894 asshole1918 arsehole1926 pisshole1928 shithole1930 shithouse1949 armpit1957 shitbox1966 bumhole1985 1949 H. Miller Sexus (Rosy Crucifixion Vol. I) iv. xvi. 149 You leave the toilet and you step into the big shithouse. Whatever you touch is shitty. 1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp (1998) xvi. 209 I know after she calls and can't get me at the pad she'll check out all the shit-houses [sc. jails]. 1981 P. J. Armstrong et al. Ideology & Shop-Floor Industr. Relations vii. 180 I'll not work in this shit-house again. 1989 M. Amis London Fields 24 Crawling through the iodized shithouse that used to be England. 1998 I. Welsh Filth 83 I'm happier by the time we've started up the motor. Just getting out of that shithoose restores your perspective. 2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xii. 130 I've been flyering and postering the bollocks out of this shit-house for a month and still we ain't getting the punters in. 2. A despicable person. Now British. ΚΠ 1665 Narr. Case of John Porter, Jun. in N. B. Shurtleff Rec. Governor & Company of Mass. Bay in New Eng. (1853–4) IV. 216 He called his mother Rambeggur, Gammar Shithouse, Gammar Pissehouse..& these abusive names he vsed frequently.] 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy 11 String the bastard up. Fughing Irish shit-'ouse. 1976 T. Griffiths Comedians 63 It's easy to be a bit of a cunt, you've got to work at becoming a shithouse. 1995 Private Eye 20 Oct. 6/1 Fuming, he confronted BBC lobby correspondent David Cornock with the warm greeting: ‘You fucking shithouse. You're always creeping to Flynn.’ 1998 C. Aherne et al. Royle Family Scripts: Series 1 (1999) Episode 2. 61 Y'know my Dad'd been dead twenty years tomorrow?.. Mind you, he was a shithouse with me mother. B. adj. Contemptible, bad, disgusting; shitty adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] blackOE rotea1382 lousyc1386 unwashed?a1390 fulsomec1390 filthy?c1400 rankc1400 leprousa1425 sicka1425 miry1532 shitten?1545 murrain1575 obscene1597 vicious1597 ketty1607 putrid1628 putredinous1641 foede1657 fulsamic1694 carrion1826 foul1842 shitty1879 scabrous1880 scummy1932 pukey1933 shitting1950 gungy1962 grungy1965 shithouse1966 grot1967 bogging1973 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible unworthc893 unwrastc893 littleOE narrow-hearteda1200 wretcha1200 unworthya1240 wretchedc1250 un-i-wrastc1275 bad1276 lechera1300 feeblea1325 despisablea1340 villain1340 contemptiblec1384 lousyc1386 caitiff1393 brothelyc1400 roinousa1425 poor1425 sevenpennyc1475 nasty1477 peakish1519 filthy1533 despectuous1541 beggary1542 scald1542 shitten?1545 disdainfula1547 contemptuous1549 despicable1553 skit-brained?1553 contemniblea1555 vile1560 sluttish1561 queer1567 scornful1570 scallardc1575 tinkerly?1576 worthless1576 beggarly?1577 paltry1578 halfpenny1579 dog bolt1580 pitiful1582 sneaking1582 triobolar1585 wormisha1586 baddy1586 dudgeon1592 measled1596 packstaff1598 roguey1598 roguish1601 contemptful1608 grovelling1608 lightly1608 disdainable1611 purulent1611 snotty-nose1622 vilipendious1630 cittern-headed1638 wormy1640 pissabed1643 triobolary1644 disparageable1648 blue-bellied1652 unestimable1656 scullion1658 piteous1667 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 snotty1681 snotty-nosed1682 mucky1683 bollocky1694 scoundrel1700 scaldeda1704 sneaking1703 ficulnean1716 unsolid1731 pitiable1753 scrubby1754 inimitable1798 scrubbish1798 worm-likea1807 small1824 lowlife1827 ketty1828 skunkish1831 yellow-bellied1833 scaly1843 cockroachya1845 wutless1853 nigger1859 trashy1862 low-down1872 cruddy1877 shitty1879 tinhorn1886 blithering1889 motherfucking1890 snidey1890 pilgarlicky1894 shitass1895 shoddy1918 yah boo1921 bitching1929 shit-faced1932 turdish1936 fricking1937 jerk-off1937 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 snot-nosed1941 jerky1944 mother-loving1948 scroungy1948 fecking1952 pissant1952 shit-kicking1953 shit-eating1956 bumboclaat1957 rassclaat1957 shit-headed1959 farkakte1960 shithouse1966 daggy1967 dipshit1968 scuzzy1969 bloodclaat1971 bitch ass1972 wanky1972 streelish1974 twatty1975 twattish1976 dweeby1988 douchey1991 wank1991 cockish1996 1966 C. Bukowski Let. 3 Feb. in Screams from Balcony (1998) 239 The flunky fired from his shithouse job, the guys like me. 1972 G. Morley Jockey rides Honest Race 173 You're probably right..but I still feel shithouse about it. 1973 J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 46 Have you explained all this shithouse philosophy to the rate-payers? 1977 Zigzag Aug. 5/2 If you're banned in town A and then banned in town B, well then town C has just got to ban you or it's, ‘well what kind of shithouse place are you running there, councillor?’ 2001 T. Winton Dirt Music (2003) 149 To say you look shithouse would be brown-nosin, said Beaver as she pulled up beside him at the pump. 2003 Empire May 75/1 I tell you, I'm a really shithouse surfer... I lie on the board and I am just crap. Phrases P1. to be in the shithouse: = to be in the shitter at shitter n. Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1962 J. Brooks Henry's War vi. 72 If I don't finish this one within a week I shall be in the shithouse. 1973 J. Breslin World without End 137 If they search us, we're going to be in the shithouse. a1985 J. Rowles in I. Gitler Swing to Bop (1987) vi. 194 I thought, ‘Jesus, what have I done? Now I'm in trouble. I'm in the shithouse again.’ 2007 C. A. Harris Storms xi. 191 Fleetwood Mac's career was definitely not in the shithouse. Categories » P2. built like a brick shithouse and variants: see brick n.¹ and adj.¹ Phrases 5. Compounds shithouse rat n. a rat inhabiting a privy (used in similes as the typical or extreme example of a quality). ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 326 Cute as a shithouse rat. 1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp (1998) viii. 131 Yeah, Kid, he lives just around that next corner, in a penthouse. Like I told you he's lucky as a shit-house rat. 1982 D. Arnason 50 Stories & Piece of Advice 25 Elwood Crooke is clean crazy. He scratched his head. Crazy as a shithouse rat, our Elwood. 2009 J. Henry Blood Sunset xxv. 232 You're as shifty as a shithouse rat, you know that? shithouse rumour n. = latrine rumour at latrine n. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle 67 Even while they referred to any such bit of information as a ‘shithouse rumor’ they spread it even further. 1967 M. Braly On the Yard 340 ‘Shithouse rumor,’ Red said scornfully. ‘The captain's office has him listed for transfer to the pie factory, and that's no rumor.’ 1999 D. Hackworth Price of Honor 334 All you had was shithouse rumor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1659
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