gashousen.

Brit.

/ˈɡashaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈɡæsˌ(h)aʊs/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gas n.¹, house n.¹

Etymology: < gas n.¹ + house n.¹

A building in which gas is produced; a gasworks.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with oil or gas > [noun] > gasworks

gashouse1810

gasworks1815

1810 Monthly Mag. May 367/1 No trouble attends this mode of illumination; the occasional attendance of one man in the gas-house, to charge the retorts, and mend the fire, being all that is necessary.

1880 G. N. Lamphere U.S. Govt. 227/1 The buildings connected with the hospital..are..a gas-house [etc.].

1923 T. S. Eliot Waste Land iii. 15 Fishing in the dull canal..round behind the gashouse.

1943 A. Rand Fountainhead ii. vii. 283 It will stand between a row of brownstone tenements on one side and the tanks of a gashouse on the other.

1980 Verbatim Spring 8/1 Fire hit the old gashouse back in April, destroyed the roof, and more than 100,000 volumes.

1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose xiv. 138 One dimwit once tried to load us with hot coke straight from the gas'ouse.

Compounds

C1. General attributive with the sense ‘of or belonging to a gashouse’.

ΚΠ

1822 R. Mudie Hist. Acct. His Majesty's Visit to Scotl. ii. 89 A large crown on the top of the gas-house chimney, illuminated with gas.

1839 N. Amer. 2 Aug. The gas house men were about completing some repairs in the store.

1919 Gas Age 15 Apr. 433/2 The gas-house building is being made fireproof.

1934 H. F. Bain & T. T. Read Ores & Industry S. Amer. ix. 258 There is an annual production of around 50,000 tons of gas-house coke.

1998 W. M. Haschek & C. G. Rousseaux Fund. Toxicol. Pathol. v. 121/2 Foundry workers, gashouse workers, and coke oven workers are exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

C2. General attributive with the sense ‘in the vicinity of a gashouse’, hence (in North American use) used allusively to designate a dangerous or low-income area or its inhabitants. Frequently in gashouse district. Cf. gashouse gang n.

ΚΠ

1877 2nd Ann. Rep. Board of Health Georgia 1876 App. p. xxxix The association found..the gas house district, on the extreme northeast, the worst infected in the city.

1915 G. H. Smith Felix O'Day xx. 306 Bobby had come home from school with a lump on his head as big as a hen's egg, where some ‘gas-house kid’, as Bobby expressed it, ‘had fetched him a crack’.

1926 C. Wood & G. Goddard Dict. Amer. Slang 20 Gas-house district, district in city unsuitable for living; abode of gangsters.

1934 R. Riskin It happened One Night in Six Screenplays (1997) 218 Gordon. Sure, sure, I got your copy. Why didn't you tell me you were going to write it in Greek?.. Peter. That was free verse, you gashouse palooka!

1990 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 July f8 The racing public was fascinated by the kid who grew up in Toronto's tough, east-end gas-house district.

1997 C. Carr Angel of Darkness (1998) 20 Any Gashouse tough..could've..used the park as a hiding place from which to jump unsuspecting passers-by.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gashouse
释义	gashousen. Brit. /ˈɡashaʊs/, U.S. /ˈɡæsˌ(h)aʊs/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gas n.¹, house n.¹ Etymology: < gas n.¹ + house n.¹ A building in which gas is produced; a gasworks. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with oil or gas > [noun] > gasworks gashouse1810 gasworks1815 1810 Monthly Mag. May 367/1 No trouble attends this mode of illumination; the occasional attendance of one man in the gas-house, to charge the retorts, and mend the fire, being all that is necessary. 1880 G. N. Lamphere U.S. Govt. 227/1 The buildings connected with the hospital..are..a gas-house [etc.]. 1923 T. S. Eliot Waste Land iii. 15 Fishing in the dull canal..round behind the gashouse. 1943 A. Rand Fountainhead ii. vii. 283 It will stand between a row of brownstone tenements on one side and the tanks of a gashouse on the other. 1980 Verbatim Spring 8/1 Fire hit the old gashouse back in April, destroyed the roof, and more than 100,000 volumes. 1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose xiv. 138 One dimwit once tried to load us with hot coke straight from the gas'ouse. Compounds C1. General attributive with the sense ‘of or belonging to a gashouse’. ΚΠ 1822 R. Mudie Hist. Acct. His Majesty's Visit to Scotl. ii. 89 A large crown on the top of the gas-house chimney, illuminated with gas. 1839 N. Amer. 2 Aug. The gas house men were about completing some repairs in the store. 1919 Gas Age 15 Apr. 433/2 The gas-house building is being made fireproof. 1934 H. F. Bain & T. T. Read Ores & Industry S. Amer. ix. 258 There is an annual production of around 50,000 tons of gas-house coke. 1998 W. M. Haschek & C. G. Rousseaux Fund. Toxicol. Pathol. v. 121/2 Foundry workers, gashouse workers, and coke oven workers are exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. C2. General attributive with the sense ‘in the vicinity of a gashouse’, hence (in North American use) used allusively to designate a dangerous or low-income area or its inhabitants. Frequently in gashouse district. Cf. gashouse gang n. ΚΠ 1877 2nd Ann. Rep. Board of Health Georgia 1876 App. p. xxxix The association found..the gas house district, on the extreme northeast, the worst infected in the city. 1915 G. H. Smith Felix O'Day xx. 306 Bobby had come home from school with a lump on his head as big as a hen's egg, where some ‘gas-house kid’, as Bobby expressed it, ‘had fetched him a crack’. 1926 C. Wood & G. Goddard Dict. Amer. Slang 20 Gas-house district, district in city unsuitable for living; abode of gangsters. 1934 R. Riskin It happened One Night in Six Screenplays (1997) 218 Gordon. Sure, sure, I got your copy. Why didn't you tell me you were going to write it in Greek?.. Peter. That was free verse, you gashouse palooka! 1990 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 July f8 The racing public was fascinated by the kid who grew up in Toronto's tough, east-end gas-house district. 1997 C. Carr Angel of Darkness (1998) 20 Any Gashouse tough..could've..used the park as a hiding place from which to jump unsuspecting passers-by. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1810
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