outhouse

英语

使用纸板墙和纤维玻璃天花板的户外厕所

词源

继承自中古英语 outhous，等价于 out- +‎ house。对照古诺尔斯语 úthús。

发音

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名词

outhouse (复数 outhouses)

1. (过时) 远离主建筑或从主建筑没有直接的入口进入的小型附属建筑
2. (加拿大、美国) 木头隔间的户外厕所（通常粪池上只有一个蹲位），一般为长期建筑
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine‎^[1]:

     There was a considerable outhouse, which he unlocked and we entered.

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   • 1945年8月17日, George Orwell [笔名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair], 章号 6, 出自 Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     […] plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses

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近义词

• (户外厕所)： 参见 Thesaurus:outhouse
• (附属建筑)： 参见 outbuilding

上位词

• house

派生词汇

• built like a brick outhouse

动词

outhouse (第三人称单数简单现在时 outhouses，现在分词 outhousing，一般过去时及过去分词 outhoused)

1. (及物) 安置在单独的建筑中
   • 1969, Great Britain. National Libraries Committee, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Report of the National Libraries Committee (page 85)

     In our discussion of outhousing we have tried to take into account the inconvenience to users as well as the potential savings in costs.

   • 1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, 第 28 卷，第 38 页:

     The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building.

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