What's the difference between outhouse and shithouse?
Outhouse
Definition:
(n.) A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.
Example Sentences:
(1) The feet were missing, probably chopped off when a Victorian outhouse was built on the site of the long-lost Greyfriars church, missing the main skeleton by inches.
(2) Here in Exeter, we are not so much the northern powerhouse, as the bricked up outhouse, forgotten in the march of progress, but paying higher utility and rents than most, and getting sod all in return.
(3) "We ran and hid by the outhouse," Mrs Vishesella said, crouching as she had then beside a small white shed.
(4) It's a beautiful property, a walled tropical garden with four units for rent in outhouses and timber lodges.
(5) Outside at the back of the yard was a toilet in a small brick outhouse.
(6) I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse.
(7) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
(8) Landlords are getting rents for barely habitable properties, stables and outhouses.
(9) In the 1980s we pushed to have the county and the state help us with infrastructure because most all of the colonias were not on the grid; they didn’t have potable water; they had outhouses for the most part; the streets weren’t paved.
(10) In 1999, when a little-known prime minister, he famously pledged to "waste Chechen rebels in the outhouse".
(11) Bowker said that Joyce was “outraged on receiving his copies of the Review to see what cuts had been made”, including “chopping out Mr Bloom’s graphically-recorded visit to the outhouse in chapter four”.
(12) They had an outhouse in those days, they didn't have a toilet inside - and when the kids' hands went up 'cos they wanted to go, we didn't know what they were saying.
(13) Used judiciously, these precautions may prevent an unplanned tour of bathrooms and outhouses in foreign countries.
(14) Once protected by two giant walls, each more than 100m long and 4m high, the complex at Ness contained more than a dozen large temples – one measured almost 25m square – that were linked to outhouses and kitchens by carefully constructed stone pavements.
Shithouse
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The model I use for my paintings is a surfer guy who's built like a brick shithouse."
(2) Alyokhina responded by quoting the president and his spokesman: "That is no more indecent than your Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin]'s statements about 'wasting our enemies in the shithouse' or 'smearing the livers of protesters on the pavement'."