outhouse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small building situated apart from a main house and used for storage, work, or another practical purpose

   The gardener kept tools and seed trays in a brick outhouse behind the cottage.

2. 2
   noun

   a small outdoor building containing a toilet, especially one over a pit or cesspool

   The remote cabin had no indoor plumbing, only an outhouse at the edge of the clearing.

From Middle English outhous, formed from out + house; compare Old Norse uthus. It first meant any subsidiary building outside the main dwelling. In North American English it became especially associated with a detached outdoor toilet.

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