longhouse

（英国旧式人畜共居的）长屋

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词形变化

longhouses 复数 longhouses

别名

long-house Longhouse long house

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples.

  2. 2.

    An outhouse, an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.

    委婉 废旧
  3. 3.

    The modern society, perceived as increasingly matriarchal and overly egalitarian, and therefore stifling nonconformity and masculine values.

    贬义 俚语

词源

From long + house. The sense of outhouse possibly derives from Whittington's Longhouse, a public toilet in medieval London, but first attested in a translation of a similar French expression.

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