Backhouseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From their location behind the main house of an estate.

名詞

back house ‎(複数形 back houses)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of backhouse: any outbuilding; an outhouse.
2. A garden apartment.

語源

From back +‎ house.

名詞

backhouse (複数形 backhouses)

1. (now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building, or an annex attached to the rear of it; especially, a scullery or washhouse.
   • 1557, Edinburgh Burgh Records, volume III, page 17:

     […] to abstene […] fra all melting […] of talloun within thair bak hous […]

2. (US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   • 1847, Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language:

     BACK'HOUSE... a necessary.

   • 1939, Christopher Morley, chapter II, in Kitty Foyle, page 23:

     […] the chlorides Mother was always throwing into the little outdoor backhouse […]

同意語

• (outhouse): backside (英国用法); see also Thesaurus:bathroom

上位語

• backside
• house
• outbuilding

派生した語

• → French: bécosse

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary. "back-house, n."

アナグラム

• houseback