outhouse
pronunciation
How to pronounce outhouse in British English:
UK [ˈaʊthaʊs]
How to pronounce outhouse in American English:
US [ˈaʊtˌhaʊs]
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- Noun:
- a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
Word Origin
- outhouse (n.)
- early 14c., "shed, outbuilding," from out + house (n.). Sense of "a privy" (principally American English) is first attested 1819.
Example
- 1. One night he awoke with diarrhea and stumbled to the public outhouse .
- 2. And they come with their own tent , though you may want to invest in an outhouse .
- 3. The accommodation was a small concrete shed , plus an outhouse with half a roof of corrugated plastic , surrounded by a ten-foot deep elephant pit that was bridged by a slippery log .
- 4. Their dinners usually ended with sergey picking up the scissors , cutting pravda into squares , and taking them to the outhouse .