siegehouse

See also: siege-house and siege house

English

Alternative forms

siege-house, siege house
segehouse, sege-house, sege house

Etymology

From siege (“seat, toilet seat”) + house.[1]

Noun

siegehouse (plural siegehouses)

(euphemistic, obsolete) An outbuilding with toilet seats: an outhouse.
- 1440, Coventry Leet Book, p. 194:
  The sege houses in þe West~orcherd were graunte to hym.
- 1519, W. Horman, Vulgaria, Ch. xix, p. 170:
  A segehouse wold be vnder the open aire betwene two wallis.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:bathroom

Hypernyms

house

References

"siege, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1910), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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