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- cathouse, call house, and sporting house for bordello
In addition, do the terms sporting house and call house, aside from being rare euphemisms for "brothel," have a somewhat antiquated feel to them, sort of like the word "saloon" might conjure up the picture of an Old West barroom? sporting house: bordello; a long career as a madam in a New Orleans sporting house
- A better word than cathouse for an outside shelter for 1 cat
I participate on Pets SE, and can find only 1 reference to 'cat-house' "Cattery" has been suggested on Wikipedia and Quora, but that sounds like a kennel for cats In other words, similar to an 'aviary' 'Shelter' sounds like a place for adoption of strays Is there a less-suggestive word for the house of a single cat, that works like 'doghouse'?
- Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
I couldn't find any use of the phrase earlier than the 1840 Money Diggers reference, but I did find some background to which the saying might refer Apparently the debate on cat-skinning boiled down to whether or not it was done while the cat was still alive Here's a clip from the disturbing House of Commons' Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Committee on Bill for Prevention of Cruelty to
- meaning - Pussy (cat) vs cat - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the difference between a pussy or pussycat and just cat? According to some soft sources, such as this yahoo answers question the term pussycat is a female cat, complementing the tom cat wh
- meaning - Why do we say he doesnt know him from Adam? - English . . .
I was told that when I say He doesn't know him from Adam, I mean He doesn't know him at all But if I say He doesn't know him from his schooldays It still means that he knows him!
- Why has the plague on our houses become a pox?
The meaning of "plague" has shifted over the past century or so (as it is used more and more figuratively), while the meaning of "pox" has not shifted so much
- Meaning of hats and cats? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The intended meaning of "hats and cats" is evidently "ladies and gentlemen " Here is the entry for hat in Robert Gold, A Jazz Lexicon (1964): hat, n {obscene semantic development: i e , an analogy is drawn between putting on hat and mounting a woman in coitus; some currency esp among Negro jassmen since c 1940} See quote — 1963 Hiptionary, p 8 hat: girl, chick {jazz sense}, wife The
- Why is cat spelt with a c while kitten is spelt with a k?
cit One reason why the first letter of cat and kitten are spelled differently is that the syllable cit is nearly always pronounced sɪt , if kitten were spelt (spelled) citten, it would probably be pronounced ˈsɪt (ə)n
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