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house of office

noun

Etymology

From the mostly archaic sense of office as a "duty" or "function" and hence unmentionable "bodily functions".

Definitions

  1. An outhouse

    An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

    • Going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds, by which I find that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me; but I will have it helped.
    • I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.
    • The very clerks—those somewhat dirty springs Of office, or the House of Office.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA