gongpit
See also: gong-pit
English
Alternative forms
- gong-pit
Etymology
From Middle English gonge-put, equivalent to gong (“latrine, outhouse”) + pit.
Noun
gongpit (plural gongpits)
- (obsolete) The cesspit of a latrine or outhouse; a latrine or outhouse itself.
- c. 1000, Aelfric, Interrogationes Sigewulfi:
- On þære nyðemestan fleringe wæs heora gangpyt & heora myxen.
- a. 1400,, the Vernon Manuscript, Ch. xxix, p. 48:
- In to a gonge-put fer wiþ-Inne þe child adoun þer-Inne he þrong.
- c. 1000, Aelfric, Interrogationes Sigewulfi:
Synonyms
- (pit): See cesspit
- (toilet): See Thesaurus:bathroom
Related terms
- See gong
References
- ""† gong, n.¹" in the Oxford English Dictionary (1900), Oxford: Oxford University Press.