longhouse

Meanings

Plural: longhouses

Noun

• A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples.
• An outhouse, an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.
• The modern society, perceived as increasingly matriarchal and overly egalitarian, and therefore stifling non-conformity and masculine values.

Synonyms

backhouse, backside, bog, boggard, boghouse, carsey, chamber foreign, common house, commons, Cousin John, craphouse, danna, draught, draught-house, dunnekin, dunny, earth closet, foreign, gang, gingerbread office, gong, gonghouse, House of Commons, house of ease, house of easement, house of office, issue, jacques, jakes, jakeshouse, johnny house, karzy, khazi, kocay, little house, long drop, longhouse, necessary, necessary house, necessary place, necessary vault, neddy, netty, outhouse, passage house, petty, petty-house, privy, privy house, purging place, retreat, shield, shithouse, shouse, siege, siegehouse, thunderbox, usual offices, vault, wardrobe, withdraught