英语词汇“back、house”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

back-house

释义

back-house
[back a. 1, back- 5.]
†1. A subsidiary house or building which lies behind the main house. Obs. exc. dial.
1557Edin. B. Rec. III. 17 To abstene..fra all melting..of talloun within thair bak hous.a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 724 The intercession by Angels lyeth (as they say) in the backhouse ditch.1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4637/4 A well built Brick House, with a Back-house and other Buildings behind.1888B. L. Burnett From Stable Boy xxvii. 148, I was layving..without going to the zider cask in the back-houze.
2. U.S. A privy. Also attrib.
1847in Webster.1939C. Morley Kitty Foyle ii. 23 The chlorides Mother was always throwing into the little outdoor backhouse.Ibid. xvii. 161 None of that backhouse talk when Molly Scarf gets here.

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