shithouse

shithouse

See also: shit house

English

Etymology

From shit +‎ house

Pronunciation

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Noun

shithouse (plural shithouses)

1. (vulgar, informal) An outhouse, an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
2. (Britain, vulgar, derogatory, slang) A coward: one who is overly fearful or timid.

Synonyms

• (outhouse): craphouse, shitter; shouse (Australian); boghouse (UK); see also Thesaurus:bathroom
• (pejorative slang for coward): See Thesaurus:coward

Hypernyms

• house

Derived terms

• brick shithouse
• built like a brick shithouse
• crazy as a shithouse rat, crazier than a shithouse rat
• shouse, s'house

Translations

Translations

Dutch: schijthuis (nl) n, schijthuisje (nl) n, secreet (nl), plee (nl) m, schijtkot n Esperanto: fekejo (eo) Finnish: paskahuussi (fi) French: chiotte (fr) m or f

German: Scheißhaus (de) n, Plumpsklo (de) n Polish: sracz (pl) m Russian: пара́ша (ru) f (paráša), сра́льная f (srálʹnaja), сорти́р (ru) m (sortír) Walloon: tchiyote (wa) f

Adjective

shithouse (not comparable)

1. (Britain, Australia and New Zealand, vulgar slang) Of poor quality.
   • 2005, Eckhard Otto Hardy Marthen, Otto, page 334:

     The stupefied bus driver kept ranting and raving at him. “You could have been stuffed, mate! Once the water splits it would have been the most shithouse moment in your life, and the last one! This beach is for crocs only! […] ”

   • 2010, Brian Cadd, From This Side of Things, p. 255:

     The story goes that when she applied for the job, they were fearful of hiring her because she was ‘much more shithouse than them’. I cannot imagine anyone being worse than those two but she did give it a good go.

Synonyms

• shitty (US)

Translations

Of poor quality — see shitty

References

• Online Etymology Dictionary - entry shit