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Privy vs Shithouse - What's the difference?

privy | shithouse |

As adjectives the difference between privy and shithouse

is that privy is private, exclusive; not public; one's own while shithouse is (uk|australia|new zealand|vulgar|colloquial) of poor quality.

As nouns the difference between privy and shithouse

is that privy is an outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house while shithouse is (vulgar|colloquial) an outside toilet, an outhouse.

privy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
    • The king retreated to his privy chamber.
    the privy purse
  • Secret, hidden, concealed.
  • * 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 82:
    • Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
  • With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
    • He was privy to the discussions.

    Noun

    (privies)
  • An outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.
  • (legal) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
    • (Burrill)
    (Wharton)

    shithouse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar, colloquial) An outside toilet, an outhouse.
  • (British, vulgar, metonymy, pejorative) One who is afraid of a certain challenge or scared.

    • Synonyms

    * (outside toilet) outhouse, thunderbox * (sense) chicken (US), shit, piece of shit, crap

    Derived terms

    * brick shithouse

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, colloquial) Of poor quality.
  • * 2005 , Eckhard Otto Hardy Marthen, Otto , iUniverse, page 334,
    • The stupefied bus driver kept ranting and raving at him. “You could have been stuffed, mate! Once the water splits it would have been the most shithouse moment in your life, and the last one! This beach is for crocs only!”
  • * 2010 , , From This Side of Things , unnumbered page,
    • The story goes that when she applied for the job, they were fearful of hiring her because she was ‘much more shithouse than them’. I cannot imagine anyone being worse than those two but she did give it a good go.

    References

    * Online Etymology Dictionary - entry shit [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=shit&searchmode=none] English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs