privy house

plural privy houses · alternative privy-house

1. An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.

   An intact, clapboarded privy house still stands within the foundation of the 1794 ministry barn.

   2004, D.R. Starbuck, chapter II, in Neither Plain nor Simple, page 116

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   I wil that ye newe prevy hous ovir the synkke be the dore... serve for the parlour and chambir a loffte.

   1463, will in S. Tymm's 1850 Wills and Inventories of Bury St. Edmunds, p. 20

   The filthiness and nasty things of the said privy house of office, flowed out... into the cellar aforesaid.

   1776, Young Clerk's Complete Guide, page 106

   So far as he's concerned, all dem he don't know oughta be tried and sentenced tuh six months behind de United States privy house at hard smellin'.

   1937, Zora N. Hurston, chapter XIX, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, page 255

   Synonyms: outhouse