Definitions

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  • noun vulgar, colloquial An outside toilet, an outhouse.
  • noun UK, vulgar, pejorative One who is afraid of a certain challenge or scared.
  • adjective Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, colloquial Of poor quality.

Etymologies

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shit +‎ house

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Examples

  • It’s fair in the sense that, yeah, some bloggers do seem to think they’re journalists and they’re just, well, shithouse is a good word that comes to mind.

    Bloggers have cred? « Squash 2006

  • Other examples of the satirist's humour, cited by Le Monde, include saying that homosexuals smell of the 'shithouse' and that 'pulling the toilet chain is the only choice'.

    Ooooo la La Paris Valleys Mam 2008

  • In 1991, Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer called the state's Eastern Shore a "shithouse" because, I believe, it had not voted for him, and the Sun reported that he'd called it an "outhouse."

    Balkinization 2007

  • The weather for much of the week can only be described as "shithouse".

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Schaefer compared Maryland's Eastern Shore to an outhouse he referred to the region as a 'shithouse')) Somehow, the truth leaked out.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Wassim Shazad, a 36 year old brick shithouse of a former-Marine drove four hours from North Carolina, to take aim at racial stereotypes of Muslims in America.

    Raj Patel: Polite Laughter on the Mall Raj Patel 2010

  • Wassim Shazad, a 36 year old brick shithouse of a former-Marine drove four hours from North Carolina, to take aim at racial stereotypes of Muslims in America.

    Raj Patel: Polite Laughter on the Mall Raj Patel 2010

  • Wassim Shazad, a 36 year old brick shithouse of a former-Marine drove four hours from North Carolina, to take aim at racial stereotypes of Muslims in America.

    Raj Patel: Polite Laughter on the Mall Raj Patel 2010

  • I will never attain my 14 year old 50 mile a week swim training 65kilos, most of which was brick shithouse muscle bulk, and I hold my pregnancy responsile for the ten kg that took me up to 80kg.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger lite. 2010

  • Wassim Shazad, a 36 year old brick shithouse of a former-Marine drove four hours from North Carolina, to take aim at racial stereotypes of Muslims in America.

    Raj Patel: Polite Laughter on the Mall Raj Patel 2010

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