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shouse

shouse

See also: s'house

English

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Noun

shouse (plural shouses)

  1. (Australia slang) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
    He sat off on one side, lonesome as a country shouse.
    • 1941, Sidney John Baker, A Popular Dictionary of Australian Slang, p. 66:
      Shouse, a privy.

Synonyms

  • See Wikisaurus:bathroom

References

  1. "shouse, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1986), Oxford: Oxford University Press.