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thunderbox
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thunder + box; in the sense of a toilet, presumed to be because of the noises that may be made while using it, especially while defecating.
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thunderbox (複数形 thunderboxes)
- (historical) A close-stool, a stool enclosing a chamber pot.
- (Britain, Australia, slang) An outhouse or latrine: a rudimentary outdoor toilet.
- 1974 June 13, Donald Gould, "A Groundling′s Notebook: Ice Waterloo" in the New Scientist, page 708:
- Meantime the ICE experts are poring over their photographs, and making measurements, which, presumably, will go into a computer, and out will come the specification for the perfect thunderbox.
- 1979, The Bulletin, Vol. 100, page 35:
- 2005, Benedict le Vay, Eccentric Britain, 2nd, page 57:
- 1974 June 13, Donald Gould, "A Groundling′s Notebook: Ice Waterloo" in the New Scientist, page 708:
thunder-box
名詞
thunder-box (複数形 thunder-boxes)
- Alternative form of thunderbox
- 1848, H. J. Whitling, “The Old Man and His Guests”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XXIII, London: Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 53840988, page 203:
- […] I saw Arnoldi at Dettelbach, standing unhurt amongst the lances and swords, which flashed and glittered around him like lightning; the thunder-boxes peppering away all the while as if it snowed lead; and when the pastime (for it was nothing else to him) was over, there he stood leaning on his halbert, coolly shaking out the bullets, which rattled like peas from his breeches and doublet.
- 1939 March, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden; Christopher Isherwood, “Travel-diary. Chapter 7.”, in Journey to a War, London: Faber & Faber […], OCLC 1246233465, page 182:
- 1978, Eric [Thomas] Stokes, “The Return of the Peasant to South Asian History”, in The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House in association with Cambridge University Press, OCLC 500383616, page 289:
- In the present age the historian must content himself with the role of humble camp follower to the sociologist and economist. But like the sweeper in my regiment who carried the thunder-box of the sahibs through the Arakan campaign there is the hope that in the end it is he and not they who will be awarded the decoration.
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