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privy-house

privy-house is the alternative form of privy house.

Meaning of privy house

Noun

privy house (plural privy houses)

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

Forms of privy-house

pluralprivy-houses

Questions about privy-house

What is privy-house the alternative form of?
Privy-house is the alternative form of privy house.

Words near privy-house in the dictionary

  1. privy parts
  2. Privy Purse
  3. Privy Purses
  4. privy seal
  5. privy seals
  6. privy-house
  7. privy-houses
  8. prix
  9. prix fixe
  10. prix fixes
  11. Priya

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