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单词 bughouse
释义

bughousen.adj.

Brit. /ˈbʌɡhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈbəɡˌ(h)aʊs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bug n.2, house n.1
Etymology: < bug n.2 + house n.1
slang (originally U.S.).
A. n.
1. A building, esp. a lodging house or hotel, which is infested or likely to be infested by insects or other bugs (bug n.2 1), esp. bedbugs. Cf. bug trap n. 1a. Now rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > cheap, dirty, or run-down lodging house or hotel
rope1836
twopenny rope1836
bughouse1840
bug trap1851
hash house1865
fleabag1907
no-tell motel1961
roach motel1982
1840 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 15 Oct. A gentleman..drew bridle..in front of one of the roughest bughouses in the county.
1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Nov. 89 He is able..to present you with a meal that is not so bad, considering you are in a ‘bug house’ .
1979 W. Kennedy Ironweed 203 ‘Gonna be cold,’ Rudy said. ‘They got a fire,’ Francis said. ‘Cold's better than this bughouse.’
2. A place for the confinement of prisoners; a jail. Now rare (in later use U.S. regional).
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
quarternOE
prisona1200
jailc1275
lodgec1290
galleya1300
chartrea1325
ward1338
keepingc1384
prison-house1419
lying-house1423
javel1483
tollbooth1488
kidcotec1515
clinkc1530
warding-place1571
the hangman's budget1589
Newgate1592
gehenna1594
Lob's pound1597
caperdewsie1599
footman's inn1604
cappadochio1607
pena1640
marshalsea1652
log-house1662
bastille1663
naskin1673
state prison1684
tronk1693
stone-doublet1694
iron or stone doublet1698
college1699
nask1699
quod1699
shop1699
black hole1707
start1735
coop1785
blockhouse1796
stone jug1796
calaboose1797
factory1806
bull-pen1809
steel1811
jigger1812
jug1815
kitty1825
rock pile1830
bughouse1842
zindan1844
model1845
black house1846
tench1850
mill1851
stir1851
hoppet1855
booby hatch1859
caboose1865
cooler1872
skookum house1873
chokey1874
gib1877
nick1882
choker1884
logs1888
booby house1894
big house1905
hoosegow1911
can1912
detention camp1916
pokey1919
slammer1952
joint1953
slam1960
1842 A. Conolly Let. 11 Mar. in J. W. Kaye Lives Indian Officers (1880) II. 369 A poor wretch, confined without food for three days and nights in the Bughouse.
1895 Salt Lake Tribune 2 Oct. 3/5 There are but thirteen prisoners in the bughouse.
1900 Chester (Pa.) Times 6 Oct. 6/2 The contract for heating the City Hall cannot include the lockup..and the prisoners in the bug house will have to shiver.
1970 F. Tarpley From Blinky to Blue-John 270/2 (table) Other names for the jail..bug house.
3. North American. A psychiatric hospital. Cf. bug n.2 4a. Now somewhat archaic.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill
bedlam-house1525
dull-house1622
madhouse1649
bedlam1663
lunatic hospital1762
asylum1776
retreat1796
lunatic house1813
lunatic asylum1828
maison de santé1843
idiot asylum1848
rat house1854
bughouse1887
Colney Hatch1891
booby hatch1896
mental hospital1898
booby house1900
nut factory1900
nut collegec1906
nuthouse1906
monkey house1910
booby-hutch1914
nuttery1915
loony bin1919
nut hatch1928
silly house1930
bin1938
snake-pit1947
funny farm1950
1887 St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat 18 Sept. 12/3 You know Jack, the man that is in the bughouse—I mean Insane Asylum—now.
1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 316 It's too bad a nut from the bug-house bought the Brooklyn Bridge to-day or I'd try to sell it to you.
1940 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) viii. 113 You're bigger bloody fools than anybody outside a bughouse.
1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 8 Nov. Al Capone..in the bughouse having a feces fight with a two-bit character he would have sent down the street for coffee in the old days.
2010 Atlantic (Nexis) May 39 Holden Caulfield, as we know, ends up in the bughouse, the booby hatch, the wacky shack, done in by universal phoniness.
4. depreciative. A cinema, esp. one that is dirty, run-down, or third-rate. Cf. fleapit n. at flea n. Compounds 2a. In later use chiefly South African.Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 5, 1961) 1018/1 states that this sense has been in use in South Africa since c1920, though evidence for this is lacking; he also notes a usage in a letter from 1946, although without further substantiation.Not in North American use.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre
little theatre1569
private house1604
private playhouse1609
amphitheatre1611
private theatre1633
droll-house1705
summer theatre1761
show shop1772
national theatre1816
minor1821
legitimate1826
patent house1827
patent theatre1836
showboat1839
music theatre1849
penny-gaff1856
saloon theatre1864
leg shop1871
people's theatre1873
nickelodeon1888
repertory theatre1891
studio theatre1891
legit1897
blood-tub1906
rep1906
small-timer1910
grind house1923
theatrette1927
indie1928
vaude1933
straw hat1935
theatre-in-the-round1948
straw-hatter1949
bughouse1952
theatre-restaurant1958
dinner theatre1959
theatre club1961
black box1971
pub theatre1971
performance space1972
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] > types of
nickelodeon1888
home theatre1914
screening room1918
art house1925
indie1928
drive-in1931
ozoner1948
bughouse1952
hardtop1955
cinematheque1965
multi1970
skin house1970
stroke house1971
multiscreen1974
1952 ‘N. Shute’ Far Country ix. 326 There's a little picture theatre... It's a bit of a bug-house.
1957 J. Osborne Entertainer iii. 27 If there's nothing else on, I still go..to the bug house round the corner.
1985 Frontline (Johannesburg) Feb. 20 The Joburg ‘bughouses’ used to play a ‘magical sound’ before the curtain went up for the movie.
1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. iii. 68 Outside the city centre there were fewer picture palaces, but still plenty of local houses, flea-pits, or bughouses.
2013 Post (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 24 Apr. 9 The Royal in Victoria Street, a bughouse normally given to showing Westerns and horror films.
B. adj.
Originally and chiefly U.S. Insane, mad; (in weakened sense) crazy, wild, out of control.Quot. 1891 apparently shows slightly earlier equivalent use of the noun. Cf. sense A. 3, and also bug n.2 7, bugs adj. 1, buggy adj. 2, bug-crazy adj. (b) at bug n.2 Compounds 2b.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with
woodc725
woodsekc890
giddyc1000
out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000
witlessc1000
brainsickOE
amadc1225
lunaticc1290
madc1330
sickc1340
brain-wooda1375
out of one's minda1387
frenetica1398
fonda1400
formada1400
unwisea1400
brainc1400
unwholec1400
alienate?a1425
brainless1434
distract of one's wits1470
madfula1475
furious1475
distract1481
fro oneself1483
beside oneself1490
beside one's patience1490
dementa1500
red-wood?1507
extraught1509
misminded1509
peevish1523
bedlam-ripe1525
straughta1529
fanatic1533
bedlama1535
daft1540
unsounda1547
stark raving (also staring) mad1548
distraughted1572
insane1575
acrazeda1577
past oneself1576
frenzy1577
poll-mad1577
out of one's senses1580
maddeda1586
frenetical1588
distempered1593
distraught1597
crazed1599
diswitted1599
idle-headed1599
lymphatical1603
extract1608
madling1608
distracteda1616
informala1616
far gone1616
crazy1617
March mada1625
non compos mentis1628
brain-crazed1632
demented1632
crack-brained1634
arreptitiousa1641
dementate1640
dementated1650
brain-crackeda1652
insaniated1652
exsensed1654
bedlam-witteda1657
lymphatic1656
mad-like1679
dementative1685
non compos1699
beside one's gravity1716
hyte1720
lymphated1727
out of one's head1733
maddened1735
swivel-eyed1758
wrong1765
brainsickly1770
fatuous1773
derangedc1790
alienated1793
shake-brained1793
crack-headed1796
flighty1802
wowf1802
doitrified1808
phrenesiac1814
bedlamite1815
mad-braineda1822
fey1823
bedlamitish1824
skire1825
beside one's wits1827
as mad as a hatter1829
crazied1842
off one's head1842
bemadded1850
loco1852
off one's nut1858
off his chump1864
unsane1867
meshuga1868
non-sane1868
loony1872
bee-headed1879
off one's onion1881
off one's base1882
(to go) off one's dot1883
locoed1885
screwy1887
off one's rocker1890
balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891
meshuggener1892
nutty1892
buggy1893
bughouse1894
off one's pannikin1894
ratty1895
off one's trolley1896
batchy1898
twisted1900
batsc1901
batty1903
dippy1903
bugs1904
dingy1904
up the (also a) pole1904
nut1906
nuts1908
nutty as a fruitcake1911
bugged1920
potty1920
cuckoo1923
nutsy1923
puggled1923
blah1924
détraqué1925
doolally1925
off one's rocket1925
puggle1925
mental1927
phooey1927
crackers1928
squirrelly1928
over the edge1929
round the bend1929
lakes1934
ding-a-ling1935
wacky1935
screwball1936
dingbats1937
Asiatic1938
parlatic1941
troppo1941
up the creek1941
screwed-up1943
bonkers1945
psychological1952
out to lunch1955
starkers1956
off (one's) squiff1960
round the twist1960
yampy1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
out of one's skull1967
whacked out1969
batshit1971
woo-woo1971
nutso1973
out of (one's) gourd1977
wacko1977
off one's meds1986
1891 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 255 Begging is called ‘battering for chewing’;..insanity, ‘bug-house’.]
1894 Cent. Mag. Feb. 520 A fellow had said that ‘tramps were bug-house’ (crazy).
1896 G. Ade Artie xvii. 161 If I don't get mine [sc. a bicycle] inside of a week I'll go bug-house.
1904 N.Y. Evening Post 4 May 6 The soldiers out here [in the Philippines] are getting ‘bughouse’ drinking the native wine.
1917 A. Conan Doyle His Last Bow viii. 292 It's enough to make a man bughouse when he has to play a part from morning to night.
1966 J. Hersey Too Far to Walk ii. 9 John had signed up to room with him during that bughouse fortnight.
2008 R. Dansky Firefly Rain xiii. 153 Voices in my head were proof, right and proper, that I'd gone bughouse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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