English
Noun
Sense: a permanent outer building used as a bathroom
Synonyms
- (US & Canada)
- (UK)
- (vulgar slang, UK)
- boggard (obsolete)
- boghouse (dated slang, UK)
- (slang, UK)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- Cousin John (obsolete)
- craphouse (vulgar)
- danna (obsolete vulgar slang)
- draught (obsolete)
- draught-house (obsolete)
- (archaic)
- (slang, Scots, AU&NZ)
- earth closet (dated, UK)
- [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- gingerbread office (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- (jocular slang, UK, Canada)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- house of office (obsolete slang, UK)
- (obsolete)
- jacques (obsolete)
- jakes (slang, UK)
- jakeshouse (obsolete)
- johnny house (slang, US)
- (slang, UK)
- (slang, UK)
- (obsolete)
- little house (chiefly AU, NZ)
- (AU)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- (Geordie, obsolete)
- (Geordie)
- (US)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- petty-house (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- (obsolete Scots)
- shithouse (vulgar)
- (AU, NZ)
- (obsolete)
- (obsolete)
- thunderbox (slang, AU, UK)
- (UK)
- vault (obsolete)
- wardrobe (obsolete)
- withdraught (obsolete)
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “191. receptacle” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “outhouse” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.