longhouse

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples.
    — They marched in under French Colours and were conducted into the Long House.
  2. An outhouse, an outbuilding used for urination and defecation. euphemistic,obsolete
    — To make wads and wisps for those that go to the Long-house (you know what I meane).
  3. The modern society, perceived as increasingly matriarchal and overly egalitarian, and therefore stifling nonconformity and masculine values. derogatory,slang
    — Incredible witnessing the tone of the longhouse authoritarian liberal regime is that of an obsessive and histrionic ex or overbearing mother trying to gaslight you. The twilight days of the Soviet union at least tried to project an air of masculine competency via propaganda.

词形变化

longhouses plural long house alternative long-house alternative

词源

From long + house. The sense of outhouse possibly derives from Whittington's Longhouse, a public toilet in medieval London, but first attested in a translation of a similar French expression.
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