单词 | boghouse |
释义 | boghousen. colloquial (chiefly British). A toilet (in early use typically an outdoors 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 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). < n.1644 |
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