English

Noun

chookhouse ‎(plural chookhouses)

1. (Australia, colloquial) A henhouse.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 178:

     The hens were my witness to the ghost. They set up the sort of fuss and panic you hear when a snake enters the chookhouse late at night.