bughousen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈbʌɡhaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈbəɡˌ(h)aʊs/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bug n.², house n.¹

Etymology: < bug n.² + house n.¹

slang (originally U.S.).

A. n.

1. A building, esp. a lodging house or hotel, which is infested or likely to be infested by insects or other bugs (bug n.² 1), esp. bedbugs. Cf. bug trap n. 1a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > cheap, dirty, or run-down lodging house or hotel

rope1836

twopenny rope1836

bughouse1840

bug trap1851

hash house1865

fleabag1907

no-tell motel1961

roach motel1982

1840 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 15 Oct. A gentleman..drew bridle..in front of one of the roughest bughouses in the county.

1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Nov. 89 He is able..to present you with a meal that is not so bad, considering you are in a ‘bug house’ .

1979 W. Kennedy Ironweed 203 ‘Gonna be cold,’ Rudy said. ‘They got a fire,’ Francis said. ‘Cold's better than this bughouse.’

2. A place for the confinement of prisoners; a jail. Now rare (in later use U.S. regional).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]

quarternOE

prisona1200

jailc1275

lodgec1290

galleya1300

chartrea1325

ward1338

keepingc1384

prison-house1419

lying-house1423

javel1483

tollbooth1488

kidcotec1515

clinkc1530

warding-place1571

the hangman's budget1589

Newgate1592

gehenna1594

Lob's pound1597

caperdewsie1599

footman's inn1604

cappadochio1607

pena1640

marshalsea1652

log-house1662

bastille1663

naskin1673

state prison1684

tronk1693

stone-doublet1694

iron or stone doublet1698

college1699

nask1699

quod1699

shop1699

black hole1707

start1735

coop1785

blockhouse1796

stone jug1796

calaboose1797

factory1806

bull-pen1809

steel1811

jigger1812

jug1815

kitty1825

rock pile1830

bughouse1842

zindan1844

model1845

black house1846

tench1850

mill1851

stir1851

hoppet1855

booby hatch1859

caboose1865

cooler1872

skookum house1873

chokey1874

gib1877

nick1882

choker1884

logs1888

booby house1894

big house1905

hoosegow1911

can1912

detention camp1916

pokey1919

slammer1952

joint1953

slam1960

1842 A. Conolly Let. 11 Mar. in J. W. Kaye Lives Indian Officers (1880) II. 369 A poor wretch, confined without food for three days and nights in the Bughouse.

1895 Salt Lake Tribune 2 Oct. 3/5 There are but thirteen prisoners in the bughouse.

1900 Chester (Pa.) Times 6 Oct. 6/2 The contract for heating the City Hall cannot include the lockup..and the prisoners in the bug house will have to shiver.

1970 F. Tarpley From Blinky to Blue-John 270/2 (table) Other names for the jail..bug house.

3. North American. A psychiatric hospital. Cf. bug n.² 4a. Now somewhat archaic.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill

bedlam-house1525

dull-house1622

madhouse1649

bedlam1663

lunatic hospital1762

asylum1776

retreat1796

lunatic house1813

lunatic asylum1828

maison de santé1843

idiot asylum1848

rat house1854

bughouse1887

Colney Hatch1891

booby hatch1896

mental hospital1898

booby house1900

nut factory1900

nut collegec1906

nuthouse1906

monkey house1910

booby-hutch1914

nuttery1915

loony bin1919

nut hatch1928

silly house1930

bin1938

snake-pit1947

funny farm1950

1887 St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat 18 Sept. 12/3 You know Jack, the man that is in the bughouse—I mean Insane Asylum—now.

1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 316 It's too bad a nut from the bug-house bought the Brooklyn Bridge to-day or I'd try to sell it to you.

1940 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) viii. 113 You're bigger bloody fools than anybody outside a bughouse.

1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 8 Nov. Al Capone..in the bughouse having a feces fight with a two-bit character he would have sent down the street for coffee in the old days.

2010 Atlantic (Nexis) May 39 Holden Caulfield, as we know, ends up in the bughouse, the booby hatch, the wacky shack, done in by universal phoniness.

4. depreciative. A cinema, esp. one that is dirty, run-down, or third-rate. Cf. fleapit n. at flea n. Compounds 2a. In later use chiefly South African.Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 5, 1961) 1018/1 states that this sense has been in use in South Africa since c1920, though evidence for this is lacking; he also notes a usage in a letter from 1946, although without further substantiation.Not in North American use.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre

little theatre1569

private house1604

private playhouse1609

amphitheatre1611

private theatre1633

droll-house1705

summer theatre1761

show shop1772

national theatre1816

minor1821

legitimate1826

patent house1827

patent theatre1836

showboat1839

music theatre1849

penny-gaff1856

saloon theatre1864

leg shop1871

people's theatre1873

nickelodeon1888

repertory theatre1891

studio theatre1891

legit1897

blood-tub1906

rep1906

small-timer1910

grind house1923

theatrette1927

indie1928

vaude1933

straw hat1935

theatre-in-the-round1948

straw-hatter1949

bughouse1952

theatre-restaurant1958

dinner theatre1959

theatre club1961

black box1971

pub theatre1971

performance space1972

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] > types of

nickelodeon1888

home theatre1914

screening room1918

art house1925

indie1928

drive-in1931

ozoner1948

bughouse1952

hardtop1955

cinematheque1965

multi1970

skin house1970

stroke house1971

multiscreen1974

1952 ‘N. Shute’ Far Country ix. 326 There's a little picture theatre... It's a bit of a bug-house.

1957 J. Osborne Entertainer iii. 27 If there's nothing else on, I still go..to the bug house round the corner.

1985 Frontline (Johannesburg) Feb. 20 The Joburg ‘bughouses’ used to play a ‘magical sound’ before the curtain went up for the movie.

1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. iii. 68 Outside the city centre there were fewer picture palaces, but still plenty of local houses, flea-pits, or bughouses.

2013 Post (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 24 Apr. 9 The Royal in Victoria Street, a bughouse normally given to showing Westerns and horror films.

B. adj.

Originally and chiefly U.S. Insane, mad; (in weakened sense) crazy, wild, out of control.Quot. 1891 apparently shows slightly earlier equivalent use of the noun. Cf. sense A. 3, and also bug n.² 7, bugs adj. 1, buggy adj. 2, bug-crazy adj. (b) at bug n.² Compounds 2b.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1891 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 255 Begging is called ‘battering for chewing’;..insanity, ‘bug-house’.]

1894 Cent. Mag. Feb. 520 A fellow had said that ‘tramps were bug-house’ (crazy).

1896 G. Ade Artie xvii. 161 If I don't get mine [sc. a bicycle] inside of a week I'll go bug-house.

1904 N.Y. Evening Post 4 May 6 The soldiers out here [in the Philippines] are getting ‘bughouse’ drinking the native wine.

1917 A. Conan Doyle His Last Bow viii. 292 It's enough to make a man bughouse when he has to play a part from morning to night.

1966 J. Hersey Too Far to Walk ii. 9 John had signed up to room with him during that bughouse fortnight.

2008 R. Dansky Firefly Rain xiii. 153 Voices in my head were proof, right and proper, that I'd gone bughouse.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	bughouse
释义	bughousen.adj. Brit. /ˈbʌɡhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈbəɡˌ(h)aʊs/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bug n.², house n.¹ Etymology: < bug n.² + house n.¹ slang (originally U.S.). A. n. 1. A building, esp. a lodging house or hotel, which is infested or likely to be infested by insects or other bugs (bug n.² 1), esp. bedbugs. Cf. bug trap n. 1a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > cheap, dirty, or run-down lodging house or hotel rope1836 twopenny rope1836 bughouse1840 bug trap1851 hash house1865 fleabag1907 no-tell motel1961 roach motel1982 1840 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 15 Oct. A gentleman..drew bridle..in front of one of the roughest bughouses in the county. 1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Nov. 89 He is able..to present you with a meal that is not so bad, considering you are in a ‘bug house’ . 1979 W. Kennedy Ironweed 203 ‘Gonna be cold,’ Rudy said. ‘They got a fire,’ Francis said. ‘Cold's better than this bughouse.’ 2. A place for the confinement of prisoners; a jail. Now rare (in later use U.S. regional). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] quarternOE prisona1200 jailc1275 lodgec1290 galleya1300 chartrea1325 ward1338 keepingc1384 prison-house1419 lying-house1423 javel1483 tollbooth1488 kidcotec1515 clinkc1530 warding-place1571 the hangman's budget1589 Newgate1592 gehenna1594 Lob's pound1597 caperdewsie1599 footman's inn1604 cappadochio1607 pena1640 marshalsea1652 log-house1662 bastille1663 naskin1673 state prison1684 tronk1693 stone-doublet1694 iron or stone doublet1698 college1699 nask1699 quod1699 shop1699 black hole1707 start1735 coop1785 blockhouse1796 stone jug1796 calaboose1797 factory1806 bull-pen1809 steel1811 jigger1812 jug1815 kitty1825 rock pile1830 bughouse1842 zindan1844 model1845 black house1846 tench1850 mill1851 stir1851 hoppet1855 booby hatch1859 caboose1865 cooler1872 skookum house1873 chokey1874 gib1877 nick1882 choker1884 logs1888 booby house1894 big house1905 hoosegow1911 can1912 detention camp1916 pokey1919 slammer1952 joint1953 slam1960 1842 A. Conolly Let. 11 Mar. in J. W. Kaye Lives Indian Officers (1880) II. 369 A poor wretch, confined without food for three days and nights in the Bughouse. 1895 Salt Lake Tribune 2 Oct. 3/5 There are but thirteen prisoners in the bughouse. 1900 Chester (Pa.) Times 6 Oct. 6/2 The contract for heating the City Hall cannot include the lockup..and the prisoners in the bug house will have to shiver. 1970 F. Tarpley From Blinky to Blue-John 270/2 (table) Other names for the jail..bug house. 3. North American. A psychiatric hospital. Cf. bug n.² 4a. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill bedlam-house1525 dull-house1622 madhouse1649 bedlam1663 lunatic hospital1762 asylum1776 retreat1796 lunatic house1813 lunatic asylum1828 maison de santé1843 idiot asylum1848 rat house1854 bughouse1887 Colney Hatch1891 booby hatch1896 mental hospital1898 booby house1900 nut factory1900 nut collegec1906 nuthouse1906 monkey house1910 booby-hutch1914 nuttery1915 loony bin1919 nut hatch1928 silly house1930 bin1938 snake-pit1947 funny farm1950 1887 St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat 18 Sept. 12/3 You know Jack, the man that is in the bughouse—I mean Insane Asylum—now. 1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 316 It's too bad a nut from the bug-house bought the Brooklyn Bridge to-day or I'd try to sell it to you. 1940 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) viii. 113 You're bigger bloody fools than anybody outside a bughouse. 1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 8 Nov. Al Capone..in the bughouse having a feces fight with a two-bit character he would have sent down the street for coffee in the old days. 2010 Atlantic (Nexis) May 39 Holden Caulfield, as we know, ends up in the bughouse, the booby hatch, the wacky shack, done in by universal phoniness. 4. depreciative. A cinema, esp. one that is dirty, run-down, or third-rate. Cf. fleapit n. at flea n. Compounds 2a. In later use chiefly South African.Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 5, 1961) 1018/1 states that this sense has been in use in South Africa since c1920, though evidence for this is lacking; he also notes a usage in a letter from 1946, although without further substantiation.Not in North American use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre little theatre1569 private house1604 private playhouse1609 amphitheatre1611 private theatre1633 droll-house1705 summer theatre1761 show shop1772 national theatre1816 minor1821 legitimate1826 patent house1827 patent theatre1836 showboat1839 music theatre1849 penny-gaff1856 saloon theatre1864 leg shop1871 people's theatre1873 nickelodeon1888 repertory theatre1891 studio theatre1891 legit1897 blood-tub1906 rep1906 small-timer1910 grind house1923 theatrette1927 indie1928 vaude1933 straw hat1935 theatre-in-the-round1948 straw-hatter1949 bughouse1952 theatre-restaurant1958 dinner theatre1959 theatre club1961 black box1971 pub theatre1971 performance space1972 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] > types of nickelodeon1888 home theatre1914 screening room1918 art house1925 indie1928 drive-in1931 ozoner1948 bughouse1952 hardtop1955 cinematheque1965 multi1970 skin house1970 stroke house1971 multiscreen1974 1952 ‘N. Shute’ Far Country ix. 326 There's a little picture theatre... It's a bit of a bug-house. 1957 J. Osborne Entertainer iii. 27 If there's nothing else on, I still go..to the bug house round the corner. 1985 Frontline (Johannesburg) Feb. 20 The Joburg ‘bughouses’ used to play a ‘magical sound’ before the curtain went up for the movie. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. iii. 68 Outside the city centre there were fewer picture palaces, but still plenty of local houses, flea-pits, or bughouses. 2013 Post (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 24 Apr. 9 The Royal in Victoria Street, a bughouse normally given to showing Westerns and horror films. B. adj. Originally and chiefly U.S. Insane, mad; (in weakened sense) crazy, wild, out of control.Quot. 1891 apparently shows slightly earlier equivalent use of the noun. Cf. sense A. 3, and also bug n.² 7, bugs adj. 1, buggy adj. 2, bug-crazy adj. (b) at bug n.² Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1891 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 255 Begging is called ‘battering for chewing’;..insanity, ‘bug-house’.] 1894 Cent. Mag. Feb. 520 A fellow had said that ‘tramps were bug-house’ (crazy). 1896 G. Ade Artie xvii. 161 If I don't get mine [sc. a bicycle] inside of a week I'll go bug-house. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 4 May 6 The soldiers out here [in the Philippines] are getting ‘bughouse’ drinking the native wine. 1917 A. Conan Doyle His Last Bow viii. 292 It's enough to make a man bughouse when he has to play a part from morning to night. 1966 J. Hersey Too Far to Walk ii. 9 John had signed up to room with him during that bughouse fortnight. 2008 R. Dansky Firefly Rain xiii. 153 Voices in my head were proof, right and proper, that I'd gone bughouse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1840
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