- 1妓院（美式俚語，不好聽）
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 .
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
slangA brothel.
- Do you know how he spent years watching the droopy chicks in cathouses, listening to his cellmates moaning low behind the bars […]?
- 2
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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。