单词 | slaughterhouse |
释义 | slaughterhousen. 1. a. A house or place where animals are killed for food. ΘΚΠ 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. b. attributive, as slaughterhouse style, slaughterhouse talk. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. b. A house injurious to health. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1374 |
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