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stinkhouse en · NOUN

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Etymology

From stink + house.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, slang) Any offensively unclean building.
   • Was this place ever a tar-stained stinkhouse like the general's? No, I couldn't believe that any paint, no matter how many coats and how thick, could cover that stench. It seeps, becomes part of the building, redefines its fate. 2011, David von Beck, Coal, page 101:
   • 'It is superb advice. I am happy with the thought of my friend. Because of this thought and the friendship I hold for him, let me offer fifteen hundred dollars. It is all the money I have in the world, plus some money entrusted to me by my friend who is with the sickness of women in the stink-house called a hospital and who cannot work for himself.' 1962, James Clavell, King Rat:

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