Thesaurus:outhouse
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: a permanent outer building used as a bathroom
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- backhouse (US & Canada)
- backside (UK)
- bog (vulgar slang, UK)
- boggard (obsolete)
- boghouse (dated slang, UK)
- carsey (slang, UK)
- chamber foreign (obsolete)
- common house (obsolete)
- commons (obsolete)
- Cousin John (obsolete)
- craphouse (vulgar)
- danna (obsolete vulgar slang)
- draught (obsolete)
- draught-house (obsolete)
- dunnekin (archaic)
- dunny (slang, Scots, AU&NZ)
- earth closet (dated, UK)
- foreign [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- gang (obsolete)
- gingerbread office (obsolete)
- gong (obsolete)
- gonghouse (obsolete)
- House of Commons (jocular slang, UK, Canada)
- house of ease (obsolete)
- house of easement (obsolete)
- house of office (obsolete slang, UK)
- issue (obsolete)
- jacques (obsolete)
- jakes (slang, UK)
- jakeshouse (obsolete)
- johnny house (slang, US)
- karzy (slang, UK)
- khazi (slang, UK)
- kocay (obsolete)
- little house (chiefly AU, NZ)
- long drop (AU)
- longhouse (obsolete)
- necessary (obsolete)
- necessary house (obsolete)
- necessary place (obsolete)
- necessary vault (obsolete)
- neddy (Geordie, obsolete)
- netty (Geordie)
- outhouse (US)
- passage house (obsolete)
- petty (obsolete)
- petty-house (obsolete)
- privy
- privy house (obsolete)
- purging place (obsolete)
- retreat [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- shield (obsolete Scots)
- shithouse (vulgar)
- shouse (AU, NZ)
- siege (obsolete)
- siegehouse (obsolete)
- thunderbox (slang, AU, UK)
- usual offices (UK)
- vault (obsolete)
- wardrobe (obsolete)
- withdraught (obsolete)
Hypernyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “191. receptacle” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “outhouse” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.