bloodhouse
/ˈblʌdhaʊs/noun Australian /NZ informal
A bar or hotel noted for violence and disorder: the original hotel was a bloodhouse of the traditional kind...
- The old bloodhouse round the corner is now a pub with a bistro.
- The review was titled “From Bloodhouse to Smart Restaurant”.
- I walked past the old hotel on my way to and from school in the sixties, and it was a six-o'clock swill bloodhouse with all the usual trappings.
Origin
Early 20th century: from blood + house.
- none other than
- non-equilibrium
- non-erotic
- nones
- none-so-pretty
- non esse
- non-essence
- non-essential
- non est
- non est factum
- non est inventus
- nonesuch
- Nonesuch chest
- Nonesuch ornament
- nonet
- none the less
- nonetheless
- none the worse for
- none too
- none too ——
- non-Euclidean
- non-European
- non-evaluative
- non-event
- no news is good news