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shouse

See also: Shouse and s'house

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Etymology edit

Contraction of shithouse.[1]

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Noun edit

shouse (plural shouses)

  1. (Australia slang) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
    He sat off on one side, lonesome as a country shouse.
    • 1941, Sidney John Baker, A Popular Dictionary of Australian Slang, page 66:
      Shouse, a privy.

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  1. ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “shouse”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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