单词 | meat house |
释义 | meat housen. 1. Originally and chiefly U.S. A building in which to hang or store meat or other provisions; a building where meat is smoked as a means of curing it; a smokehouse. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > ventilated cupboard > for meat meat whitcha1425 meat ambry1457 gardeviance1459 keep1617 meat house1710 meat-screen1781 meat safe1782 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > place where food is preserved powdering house1513 skeo1602 smoke-loft1657 salting-house?c1682 meat house1710 pickle-yard1722 fishing-rooma1728 salting-room1805 frigorifico1917 1710 Deed Bk., Princess Anne Co., Va. in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 228 [In an estate inventory] Meat house. 1740 Deed Bk. B, Queen Anne's Co., Maryland in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 228 One old meat house 11 feet in length and 10 feet wide much out of repair. 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 16 Dec. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1990) VI. 127 Had the meet house covered and the meat all hung up. 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 126 Around it [sc. the cabin] are put a meat or smoke house [etc.]. 1862 R. Henning Let. 28 Aug. (1966) 95 The woolshed, meathouse..and dwelling-house are so very well put up. 1866 J. T. Trowbridge South xliii. 309 In the yard near the house was the smoke-house, or meathouse, a blind hut built of small logs, answering the purpose of a cellar,—for in that country cellars are unknown. In it the family provisions were stored. 1906 Dial. Notes 3 146 Meat-house,..smoke-house; a wooden shed in which smoked and preserved meats are kept. 1934 Z. N. Hurston Jonah's Gourd Vine xxiv. 289 Hopeful, smiling ingratiatingly into faces like a dog in a meat house. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 521/1 Along the shores of the Chesapeake a small brick house with..ventilators in the gables served as the meathouse. 1992 Destination Québec 61/2 In most cases, the outfitter provides screened meat houses and boxes to transport the [hunter's] meat. 2. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). A house where good food is served in abundance. Now rare. ΚΠ 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 323 This is a good Meat House. Spoken when we want Drink at Dinner. c1880 W. G. Lyttle Paddy McQuillan 14 ‘It's weel fur ye,’ sez I, ‘it's no a bad meat-hoose yer in, my lass.’ 1886 T. Farrall Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teàls 61 He was yance aks't ta yan o' ther slápish meet hooses. 1915 J. Wilson Lowland Sc. Lower Strathearn 200 Thon'z a graund mait-hoos. 3. slang. A brothel. Cf. meat n. 6. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel houseOE bordelc1300 whorehousec1330 stew1362 bordel housec1384 stewc1384 stivec1386 stew-house1436 bordelryc1450 brothel house1486 shop?1515 bains1541 common house1545 bawdy-house1552 hothouse1556 bordello1581 brothela1591 trugging house1591 trugging place1591 nunnery1593 vaulting-house1596 leaping house1598 Pickt-hatch1598 garden house1606 vaulting-school1606 flesh-shambles1608 whore-sty1621 bagnioa1640 public house1640 harlot-house1641 warrena1649 academy1650 call house1680 coney burrow1691 case1699 nanny-house1699 house of ill reputea1726 smuggling-ken1725 kip1766 Corinth1785 disorderly house1809 flash-house1816 dress house1823 nanny-shop1825 house of tolerance1842 whore shop1843 drum1846 introducing house1846 khazi1846 fast house1848 harlotry1849 maison de tolérance1852 knocking-shop1860 lupanar1864 assignation house1870 parlour house1871 hook shop1889 sporting house1894 meat house1896 massage parlour1906 case house1912 massage establishment1921 moll-shop1923 camp1925 notch house1926 creep joint1928 slaughterhouse1928 maison de convenance1930 cat-house1931 Bovril1936 maison close1939 joy-house1940 rib joint1940 gaff1947 maison de passe1960 rap parlour1973 1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 296/2 Meat-house, a brothel. 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 192 Meat-house,..maison publique. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 515/1 Meat-house, a brothel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1710 |
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