house of office

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词形变化

houses of office 复数 houses of office

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

    委婉 废旧

    Going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds, by which I find that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me; but I will have it helped.

    I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.

词源

From the mostly archaic sense of office as a "duty" or "function" and hence unmentionable "bodily functions".

来源：wiktionary