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privy house

privy house noun: an outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.

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
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    outhouse

privy house meaning in Urdu

privy house in Urdu

privy house, lavatory
بیت الخلاء bait-ul-xalā'

Examples of privy house in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:

Synonyms of privy house

Forms of privy house

pluralprivy houses
alternative formprivy-house

Origin of privy house

From privy (“outhouse”) to clarify the intended sense, likely under the influence of Anglo-Norman privé hostel (attested in an 1139 British source) and Latin domus privata (1141).

Questions about privy house

What does privy house mean?
Privy house means an outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.
What is privy house in Urdu?
Privy house in Urdu is بیت الخلاء (bait-ul-xalā'). See Privy house meaning in Urdu.
How do you use privy house in a sentence?
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'.
What part of speech is privy house?
Privy house is a noun.
What is the plural of privy house?
The plural of privy house is privy houses.

Words near privy house in the dictionary

  1. privy
  2. privy council
  3. privy councillor
  4. privy councillors
  5. privy councils
  6. privy house
  7. privy houses
  8. privy mark
  9. privy marks
  10. privy member
  11. privy members

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Adapted from Wiktionary: privy house (page history and authors); بیت الخلاء (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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