Piss-house: Link to the OED3 Entry for piss, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Joel, I just finished my work on "pisshouse" for HDAS III yesterday evening and was wondering who the unknown genius was who discovered the 1625 antedating for both it and its number-two equivalent--which will appear under S.

  BTW, don't the second-element vowels of "rambeggur" seem to have been reversed ?

  JL


"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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If you are interested in "piss-house", within this entry you will
find my 325-year antedating (for the sense "privy"). How long, O
Lord, how long will I have to wait to see "rambeggur"? "Shithouse"?

Joel

At 6/20/2006 11:59 AM, you wrote:
>This link will allow free access to the OED entry piss, n. for the
>next three [now two] days.
>
>The link is:
>http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/display/50180130?keytype=ref&ijkey=T2v5YAfGyzl7g
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