| 单词 | backhouse boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbackhouse boy General attributive (now chiefly in sense 2), as backhouse boy, backhouse chamber, backhouse door, etc.Recorded earliest in attributive use in in (the) backhouse ditch at Phrases. ΚΠ 1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 17 in Rocke of Regard When they both in backhouse ditch are brought, To poule them both, let some deuise be wrought. 1763 Gentleman's Mag. June 297/1 Cleobold and Riches, the two maids, lay in the back-house chamber. 1793 J. Woodforde Diary 3 Mar. (1929) IV. 12 It..blowed out part of the back-House Chamber Window. 1850 Express 4 Sept. 4/1 She was near the swill cistern and the men were sitting by the backhouse door. 1896 F. Hall in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 116/1 Backhouse boy, scullery boy. 1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle xvii. 161 None of that backhouse talk when Molly Scarf gets here. 1944 A. Jobson Suffolk Yesterdays v. 75 A mat for the backus door. 2009 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. a1 Warm pee freezes almost instantly, growing as an icy stalagmite in the backhouse pit. < as lemmas |
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