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单词 boghouse
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boghousen.

Brit. /ˈbɒɡ(h)aʊs/, U.S. /ˈbɔɡˌhaʊs/, /ˈbɑɡˌhaʊs/
Forms: 1600s bogghouse, 1600s– boghouse.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bog n.1, house n.1
Etymology: Apparently < bog n.1 + house n.1, perhaps as an alteration of boggard n.1 The nature of any connection with later bog v.3 is uncertain. Compare also later bog n.4
colloquial (chiefly British).
A toilet (in early use typically an outdoors one); an outhouse, a privy.
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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
1644 J. Booker Rope for Parret 5 As for the scraps of my Trencher, I left them behinde me at Lincolnes-Inne; I pray thee look in the Bog house there, where you shall finde spoon meat enough.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iv. in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. V Musk and Civet are safely conserved in lead boxes: but that they should resartiate their lost virtue by suspension in the middle of a Boghouse, Platearius his nose can only finde.
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. sig. G3 Fearing I should catch cold, they out of pity covered me warm in a Bogg-house.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. v. 48* The Jaques, the Bog-house or House of Office.
1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 74 in A. Pope Wks. II He cast them all into a Bog-house near St. James.
1761 Brit. Mag. 2 163 They had found the intrails of a body in the bog-house.
1806 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 145/1 It is hardly safe for a writer to throw his blotted papers into his grate (we had nearly used a coarser allusion, the bog-house), for fear of having them picked up as miscellaneous curiosities.
1873 R. L. Stevenson Let. 4 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 66 Indeed I am very serious about everything, and go to the boghouse with as much solemnity as another man would go to church with.
1896 C. W. Heckethorn Lincoln's Inn Fields iii. 126 He cut Mr. Penny's throat, and threw the body into one of the holes of the bog-house, where it was found ten days after.
1959 H. Pinter Birthday Party ii. 45 Your skin's crabby, you need a shave, your eyes are full of muck, your mouth is like a boghouse.
2005 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 29 Oct. (Sport section) 10 Retain your storl and feminane mustique by realorzing you need to chuck before you acshually do, allowing plenty of torm to find the nearest boghouse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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