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bog-house
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...
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Hurlothrumbo
The book, titled The Merry-Thought: or, the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany, transcribes graffiti found in public latrines in England, much of it The Merrythought or Bog-House and Glass-Window Miscellany. Readable online or can be downloaded in various formats.
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Pejorative
single concept, leaping from word to word in a phenomenon known as the euphemism treadmill, for example as in the successive pejoration of the terms bog-house
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bog
▪ I. bog, n.1 (bɒg) Forms: 6–7 bogg, bogge, 7 boghe, 6– bog. [ad. Ir. or Gael. bogach a bog, f. bog soft, used in composition in the sense of ‘bog’, as bog-luachair bulrush. In Scotland apparently from Gaelic, in England from Irish.] I. 1. a. A piece of wet spongy ground, consisting chiefly of decay...
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Betty Careless
Some idea of her reputation can be divined from the graffiti "Prayer" attributed to her in the Bog-House Miscellany (ca. 1731): "Grant us good lusty Men
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Molly house
Covent Garden and the Royal Exchange;
Moorfields (the path crossing the middle of these fields was known as the Sodomites' Walk);
Lincoln's Inn and its bog-house
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Miscellany
From the polite (Allan Ramsay’s The Tea-Table Miscellany, 1724–27) to the partly obscene (The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany
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Ron Jones وعنوان الكتاب:Say Ray
Sandra Cisneros وعنوان الكتاب:The House Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970
John Norton وعنوان الكتاب:Light at the End of the Bog
José Emilio González وعنوان الكتاب:Vivar a Hostos
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