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outhouse

/out-hous/US // ˈaʊtˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈaʊtˌhaʊs) //

厕所,茅厕,茅房,茅屋

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural out·hous·es [out-hou-ziz]. /ˈaʊtˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : an outbuilding with one or more seats and a pit serving as a toilet; privy.
    • : any outbuilding.

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Examples

  • It was a different world — one with well-insulated homes and indoor plumbing, not outhouses.

  • Meanwhile, I welcomed its warmth on trips to the outhouse and while shoveling snow off the deck.

  • Sharon had lived with an outhouse in Mongolia, “so that was something I was used to,” she said.

  • They bleached outhouses and the area around the concert stage offered plenty of space for social distancing, she said.

  • Even at 3am on a rainy night, your only toilet option is a wet and perhaps muddy walk to the outhouse.

  • Stein says her jail time was "like living in an outhouse in very close quarters."

  • In many rural Chinese homes, a jar of pesticide—often a variety banned in Western countries—sits in the family outhouse.

  • Perrier, to avoid these inconveniences, made an under-ground passage, by which his guest could pass to an outhouse.

  • A door at the side of this led to the little stone outhouse where the water for the pipes both of school and Chapel was heated.

  • The bath was in an outhouse about fifty yards across the yard from the ward.

  • But except at one corner of the roof of an outhouse, no damage had been done to the buildings—except the broken glass.

  • The cat had left her kittens in an outhouse before the snow began, and afterwards proposed to return to them.