privy house

短语

词形变化

privy houses 复数

别名

privy-house

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.

    I wil that ye newe prevy hous ovir the synkke be the dore... serve for the parlour and chambir a loffte.

词源

From privy (“outhouse”) to clarify the intended sense, likely under the influence of Anglo-Norman privé hostel (attested in an 1139 British source) and Latin domus privata (1141).

来源：wiktionary