ˈbog-house dial. and vulgar.
[see boggard2.]
A privy, ‘a house of office’ J. So bog-shop.
| 1666 R. Head Eng. Rogue x. 85 Fearing I should catch cold, they out of pitty covered me warm in a Bogg-house. 1705 Hickeringill Priest-Cr. ii. v. 48 The Jaques, the Bog-house or House of Office. c 1714 Arbuthnot, etc., M. Scriblerus i. xiv, He cast them all into a bog-house near St. James'. 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 163 They had found the intrails of a body in the bog-house. |