喜樂美語
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    A cathouse is a house where men pay women to have sex — a . It is American slang, a little old-fashioned, and not a polite word. You may meet it in films, crime stories, or older novels. News reports and school essays say ; nobody says cathouse in front of a teacher they want to impress. Though actually the “cat” in this compound is not a pet sitting in the hallway. In older slang, cat could mean a woman who sold sex, and house was simply stuck on. There is a rarer, plainer reading — a shed for cats — but that is not this sense. Ruder English has whorehouse; the calm word is .

    妓院（美式俚語，不好聽）

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成cat + house 的複合詞。這裡的 cat 是舊俚語，不是家裡養的貓。

同家族的字

  • catold slang for a woman who sold sex; that is the cat in this house

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

cathousenoun/ˈkat.haʊs/

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    slangA brothel.

    • Do you know how he spent years watching the droopy chicks in cathouses, listening to his cellmates moaning low behind the bars […]?
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    rareAny small house, structure or fold used to house a cat.

    • Alot^([sic]) of great work is being done all throughout blog land in terms of raising the money to build a cathouse for homeless kitties here at the daily dose.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。