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plural shithouses
(vulgar, informal) An outhouse, an outbuilding used as a lavatory examples
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, derogatory, slang) A coward: one who is overly fearful or timid.
(slang, vulgar) A filthy place. quotations
You will be less amused when I ask you when you will take your turn cleaning out this shithouse.
1987, Martin Caidin, Exit Earth, page 559
It immediately caught my attention that the area was a total shithouse. Open C-ration cans, cardboard boxes, discarded socks and underwear, you name it, it was scattered all over the damn place.
2022, Frank McCarthy, LIMA-3: And the Mustang Grunt, page 76
not comparable
(UK, Australia and New Zealand, vulgar slang) Of poor quality. quotations
The stupefied bus driver kept ranting and raving at him. “You could have been stuffed, mate! Once the water splits it would have been the most shithouse moment in your life, and the last one! This beach is for crocs only! […] ”
2005, Eckhard Otto Hardy Marthen, Otto, page 334
The story goes that when she applied for the job, they were fearful of hiring her because she was ‘much more shithouse than them’. I cannot imagine anyone being worse than those two but she did give it a good go.
2010, Brian Cadd, From This Side of Things, page 255
third-person singular simple present shithouses, present participle shithousing, simple past and past participle shithoused
(UK, sports, slang) To engage in persistent unsporting behaviour or gamesmanship; to play in a cynical, ugly manner; to cheat without being punished.