Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building behind or back from the main or front building; hence, in country places, especially in New England, a privy.
- noun Same as
bakehouse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A building behind the main building.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A smaller
building behind amain building; often aprivy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Uncle Alphonse had a strap hanging on the inside of the door to the bathroom that he used on Mick and Caesare with liberal and gleeful intent, recalling, perhaps, the beat - ings his father had inflicted on him in the "backhouse," as the outhouse was called.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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So, skim off about 20% who live in trailer parks, have diseased dogs chained up, call all their girl children Sissy and their grandmothers Mamaw, drink homemade liquor, smoke corn husks and have a ‘backhouse’ which holds all their weaponry, and then you have the last 11% who appear here daily.
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In New England, they call that "little house, big house, backhouse, barn."
The view after the treacherous drive home. Ann Althouse 2007
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This is not done by making them schlptors, backhouse wall-experts or miniature painters145;
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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This is not done by making them schlptors, backhouse wall-experts or miniature painters145;
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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Should she have crossed to the inner side of the hedge, she must have come to the door of the backhouse and got in.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Should she have crossed to the inner side of the hedge, she must have come to the door of the backhouse and got in.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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True liberal backwash backhouse by distorting words of of a person who said "Congress" to mean "corporate."
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Most guests, however, were crammed in the backhouse, where they cheered ukulele cover band the Ooks of Hazzard as the nine musicians headed toward a "Purple Rain" finale.
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Most guests, however, were crammed in the backhouse, where they cheered ukulele cover band the Ooks of Hazzard as the nine musicians headed toward a "Purple Rain" finale.
jackwoakey commented on the word backhouse
In Manitoba, this word was used exclusively, with the same meaning as "outhouse", that is a privy separate from the house. At Halloween, the children would chant: "Halloween Apples, Candy or Cake; If you don't give us any, your Backhouse will shake!" Many were overturned each year, whether candy was given or not.
June 14, 2009