Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, enclosed structure having one or two holes in a seat built over a pit and serving as an outdoor toilet.
- noun An outbuilding, as on a farm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small house or building separate from the main house; an outbuilding; specifically, in law, under the definition of arson, a building contributory to habitation, separate from the main structure, and so by the common-law rules a parcel of the dwelling-house or not, according as it is within or without the curtilage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.
- noun A small building with one or more seats and a pit underneath, intended for use as a toilet; a privy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
outbuilding , a small structure located away, or not directly accessed from, a main building. - noun North America An
outdoor toilet , (or often just a seat over acesspool ) in a woodencubicle , where the term is usually referring to apermanent facility. Where an outdoor toilet is installed on atemporary basis, the termportable toilet is generally used. Theslang termsjohn andjohnny house are sometimes used to identify an outdoor toilet; see alsoprivy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
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Examples
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The outhouse is such a bad target for pranksters that I usually just go do my business somewhere else over a log.
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“Ahh. Safe and sound!” exclaims Chris to Joe as it becomes clear the two are sitting in an outhouse, and the outhouse is headed for the brink of Niagra Falls.
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The outhouse is such a bad target for pranksters that I usually just go do my business somewhere else over a log.
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"The roof of a good outhouse is best protected from wet," thought a fourth.
Parables From Nature 1857
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... an iowa corncob in an outhouse is more useful than palin. oh well if they do convince her to come the smart folks can use an iowa corncob to wipe her off of them ... angel
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Behind the outhouse is a door to a hidden stairwell to an attic.
The Seven-Pointed Star, part 1 of 2 l.e. butler 2011
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The trek to the outhouse was a different experience that night as well.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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The trek to the outhouse was a different experience that night as well.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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The trek to the outhouse was a different experience that night as well.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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The trek to the outhouse was a different experience that night as well.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
brtom commented on the word outhouse
"By word and deed he encouraged a nocturnal strumpet to deposit fecal and other matter in an unsanitary outhouse attached to empty premises." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008
sionnach commented on the word outhouse
An outhouse is a unit of area used by nuclear physicists. One outhouse is equal to 1.0 x 10−6 barns. The term was derived by analogy with the barn.
A barn is a unit of area used by nuclear physicists to quantify the scattering cross-section of very small particles, such as atomic nuclei. One barn is equal to 1.0 x 10-28 m².
July 28, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word outhouse
Sionnach, I know it's almost three years later, but you just made my day!
June 23, 2011