单词 | nanny-house |
释义 | nanny-housen. slang. rare (historical in later use). A brothel.In quot. 1836 with reference to houses occupied by the concubines of plantation owners in the West Indies. 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 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nanny-house, a Bawdy-house. 1809 T. G. Fessenden Pills 75 She guides Jack Tar, when he carouses, As Adams says in ‘nanny houses’. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Nanny-house, -shop, a brothel. 1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xix. 334 A narrow turning to the right..that led amongst a nest of nanny houses, as they are called, inhabited by brown free people. 1941 R. Graves Proceed, Sergeant Lamb xvi. 240 You red-coats ain't fighters: all that you are equal to is swaggering about at the grogshops and nanny-houses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1699 |
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