Nissenn.
/ˈnɪsn/, U.S. /ˈnɪs(ə)n/ British (originally Military).
I. attributive.
1. Nissen hut n. a tunnel-shaped hut made of corrugated iron with a cement floor.In the U.S. called a Quonset or Quonset hut (see Quonset n.).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of
lonquhardc1480
hothouse1643
ajoupa1666
penthouse1683
pandal?1692
bark-hut1744
log-tent1748
log cabin1770
bush-hut1775
log-hut1778
yurt1780
isba1784
beach hut1806
whare1807
bough-house1811
pondok1815
grass hut1818
hartebeest house1818
leaf hut1818
gunyah1820
grass house1823
slab-and-bark hut1826
slab-and-shingle hut1826
slab whare1826
rondavel1829
bush-house1835
skerm1835
jacal1838
toldo1839
log-shanty1847
wurley1847
maloca1853
palm hut1853
whare1853
hutmenta1857
bush-shanty1857
benab1860
pondokkie1862
bothan1863
lanaia1869
hogan1872
tenta1873
beehive-hut1884
leaf shelter1886
Oklahoma1889
goondie1890
cabana1898
troolie hut1899
tukul1901
fale1902
banda1908
kya1909
hut1913
obi1913
Nissen hut1917
Nissen1919
basha1921
tourist cabin1928
bunkie1935
wanigan1937
Quonset hut1942
chickee1943
iron lung1943
Quonset1943
1917 E. F. Wood Notebk. of Intelligence Officer 224 Recently I met the inventor of the now famous Nissen hut.
1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 114 These nissen huts if hiding could Your eye inseeing from Firm fenders were.
1943 C. Beaton Diary Dec. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiii. 114 We were all herded into an already overcrowded vast Nissen hut in which the temperature..was below freezing point.
1948 G. Greene Heart of Matter iii. i. 191 I would never go back there, to the Nissen hut, if it meant that she were happy.
1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 72 There's a glorified Nissen hut—a bit of youth club—on the site.
1988 Independent 15 Aug. 1/4 Crick and Watson discovered the Double Helix structure of DNA in old Nissen huts.
1996 S. Deane Reading in Dark (1997) i. 27 He had been held with about thirty others in Nissen huts down by the docks.
II. absol.
2. = Nissen hut n. at sense 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of
lonquhardc1480
hothouse1643
ajoupa1666
penthouse1683
pandal?1692
bark-hut1744
log-tent1748
log cabin1770
bush-hut1775
log-hut1778
yurt1780
isba1784
beach hut1806
whare1807
bough-house1811
pondok1815
grass hut1818
hartebeest house1818
leaf hut1818
gunyah1820
grass house1823
slab-and-bark hut1826
slab-and-shingle hut1826
slab whare1826
rondavel1829
bush-house1835
skerm1835
jacal1838
toldo1839
log-shanty1847
wurley1847
maloca1853
palm hut1853
whare1853
hutmenta1857
bush-shanty1857
benab1860
pondokkie1862
bothan1863
lanaia1869
hogan1872
tenta1873
beehive-hut1884
leaf shelter1886
Oklahoma1889
goondie1890
cabana1898
troolie hut1899
tukul1901
fale1902
banda1908
kya1909
hut1913
obi1913
Nissen hut1917
Nissen1919
basha1921
tourist cabin1928
bunkie1935
wanigan1937
Quonset hut1942
chickee1943
iron lung1943
Quonset1943
1919 Athenæum 25 July 664/1 ‘Stokes’, the name of the inventor of the T.M., has, by metonymy, come to mean the trench mortar gun itself (so ‘Nissen’ = hut).
1948 G. Greene Heart of Matter iii. i. 222 He's living in one of the Nissens now.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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