pothouse
Britishnoun
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Last week, Erwin B. Hock, New Jersey Beverage Control Commissioner, ruled that Radigan was licensed to run a corner pothouse, not a nursery.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Sealed in blood!" croaks Long John Silver to his sidekick, Jim Hawkins, as they skulk in the corner of a dingy pothouse and plot their return to Treasure Island.
From Time Magazine Archive
We returned to the Festubert pothouse in the evening.
From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Gleichen, Edward, Lord
He is now regarded as a pothouse politician, who ought never to have been allowed to get beyond the pothouse.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry
The prejudice of Browning was synonymous with his profound contempt for certain things of which he can only speak 'in pothouse words.'
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Braybrooke, Patrick
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