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privy house

noun

Etymology

From privy (“outhouse”) to clarify the intended sense, likely under the influence of Anglo-Norman privé hostel (attested in an 1139 British source) and Latin domus privata (1141).

  1. derived from domus privata

Definitions

  1. An outhouse

    An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.

    • I wil that ye newe prevy hous ovir the synkke be the dore... serve for the parlour and chambir a loffte.
    • The filthiness and nasty things of the said privy house of office, flowed out... into the cellar aforesaid.
    • So far as he's concerned, all dem he don't know oughta be tried and sentenced tuh six months behind de United States privy house at hard smellin'.

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