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单词 slaughterhouse
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slaughterhousen.

Forms: see slaughter n. and house n.1 and int.
Etymology: < slaughter n. + house n.1 and int.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈslaughter-house.
1.
a. A house or place where animals are killed for food.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house
flesh housec1000
butchery1340
slaughterhousec1374
flesh-shamblesa1410
fleshhewery1483
shambles1548
slaughtery1648
slaughter-pen1688
shamble1885
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > abattoir
slaughterhousec1374
slaughter-yard1688
abattoir1809
the Yards1865
saladero1870
freezing works1889
chicken factory1893
c1374 in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) App. p. cxli Primo Lardariam, quæ vocatur Sclauterhus.
1441–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 79 Pro cust. boum gros. apud le Slautherhouse.
1471–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 93 Pro una magna corda pro le Slaughterhous.
1535 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 133 The bochers..shall have the voyde grounde..to make a sklautter housse.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 5 Thou hast..knockt them down as if thou hadst bin in thy slaughter house.
1675 T. Brooks Paradice Opened 82 A lamb..goeth as quietly to the shambles, or the slaughter house, as if it were going to the fold.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 21. ⁋13 The Second is a Butcher's Daughter and sometimes brings a Quarter of Mutton from the Slaughter-house.
1811 Sporting Mag. 37 86 The butchers men who work in the slaughter-houses.
1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 7 You have just dined, and, however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed.., there is complicity.
figurative.1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xii. 204 Permit him to go freely about his task of preparing these Saxon hogs for the slaughter-house.1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 25 The world has been held up to us as one great..slaughter-house resounding with the cries of a ceaseless agony.
b. attributive, as slaughterhouse style, slaughterhouse talk.
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1850 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace II. vi. viii. 576 The rise of Young Ireland, with its political ignorance, its slaughter-house talk, and its bullying boasts.
1854 R. W. Emerson Immortality in Wks. (1906) III. 279 Where there is depravity there is a slaughter-house style of thinking.
2. transferred.
a. A place or scene in which persons are killed or slaughtered.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of
butchery?1552
slaughterhouse1578
shamble1593
Aceldama1607
corpse-factory1919
killing ground1946
killing field1980
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 103 [They] beganne openly to say Cortes meant to carrie them to the slaughter house.
1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. viii. sig. Lv A raigne, not blood, An empire, not a slaughter house of liues.
1646 J. Trapp Brief Comm. John x. 40 Jerusalem was then as Rome is now, the saints' slaughter house.
1673 E. Stillingfleet Serm. v. 86 Those whose malice goes beyond their power, and want only enough of that to make the whole World a Slaughter-house.
1790 R. Merry Laurel of Liberty (ed. 2) 24 Yet, haughty France, my verse could never claim, For deeds that suit the slaughter-house of fame.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles ii. xv. 58 This ancient fortress of my race Shall be..No slaughter-house for ship-wreck'd guest.
1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 84 The lust of blood That makes a steaming slaughter-house of Rome.
figurative.1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. iii. 17 It is the great slaughter-house of genius and of mind.1918 R. Wagner Film Folk vi. 273 The cutting room of a studio is the slaughterhouse of vain ambition.
b. A house injurious to health.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > other types of house
houseOE
showernc1175
house of fencec1425
abbey1665
park1750
trust house1751
subhouse1771
hurley-house1814
bure1843
ideal home1854
tholtan1856
picture house1858
village-house1862
tumble-down1866
tree-house1867
mazet1873
riad1881
slaughterhouse1899
whare puni1911
mas1912
social housing1928
quadruplex1939
share house1945
starter home1948
show house1957
painted lady1978
self-build1978
starter1979
Earthship1985
Queenslander1985
des res1986
common house1989
1899 Atlantic Monthly 83 769/1 Rear tenements, to the number of nearly 100, have been condemned as ‘slaughter houses’, with good reason.
3. A part of a fortification. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > building on wall
slaughterhouse1552
1552 King Edward VI Jrnl. (Roxb.) 439 It was agreed the wall shuld stond, and tow slaughter houses to be made upon to skowre the utter cutiners.
1552 King Edward VI Jrnl. (Roxb.) 439 Another walle within that, with tow other slaughter houses, and a rampere within that again.
4. slang.
a. (See quot. 1809.)
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1809 Sporting Mag. 33 73 The houses called by sharpers Slaughter-Houses, are those where persons are uniformly employed by the proprietors to affect to play at hazard for large sums of money.
b. A shop where goods are bought from small makers at very low prices. Also attributive.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop
show shop1787
lock-up shop1795
cash-store1811
boat shop1813
slaughter shop1841
slaughterhouse1851
ticket-shop1851
charity shop1853
magic shop1853
company store1872
Army and Navy1878
five-and-ten1880
farthing-shop1889
funeral home1895
goodwill1916
shop-within-(a)-shop1916
cash and carry1917
Piggly Wiggly1917
poverty shop1948
discount house1949
anchor1960
box store1976
mom-and-pop1976
op shop1978
duty-free1980
pound shop1983
pop-up2000
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 333/2 This was owing to..the unwillingness of the small master to carry it to another slaughter-house in the rain.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 223/2 A special race of employers, known by the significant name of ‘slaughter-house men’.
c. A cheap brothel.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel
houseOE
bordelc1300
whorehousec1330
stew1362
bordel housec1384
stewc1384
stivec1386
stew-house1436
bordelryc1450
brothel house1486
shop?1515
bains1541
common house1545
bawdy-house1552
hothouse1556
bordello1581
brothela1591
trugging house1591
trugging place1591
nunnery1593
vaulting-house1596
leaping house1598
Pickt-hatch1598
garden house1606
vaulting-school1606
flesh-shambles1608
whore-sty1621
bagnioa1640
public house1640
harlot-house1641
warrena1649
academy1650
call house1680
coney burrow1691
case1699
nanny-house1699
house of ill reputea1726
smuggling-ken1725
kip1766
Corinth1785
disorderly house1809
flash-house1816
dress house1823
nanny-shop1825
house of tolerance1842
whore shop1843
drum1846
introducing house1846
khazi1846
fast house1848
harlotry1849
maison de tolérance1852
knocking-shop1860
lupanar1864
assignation house1870
parlour house1871
hook shop1889
sporting house1894
meat house1896
massage parlour1906
case house1912
massage establishment1921
moll-shop1923
camp1925
notch house1926
creep joint1928
slaughterhouse1928
maison de convenance1930
cat-house1931
Bovril1936
maison close1939
joy-house1940
rib joint1940
gaff1947
maison de passe1960
rap parlour1973
1928 E. Sutton tr. A. Londres Road to Buenos Ayres vii. 55 She had got into a slaughter-house at two dollars instead of five.
1962 W. Faulkner Reivers viii. 164 Both of you get to hell back to that slaughterhouse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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