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
The snorts and moans of the pothouse Werthers are as irritating, in the long run, as the bawling of a child, the squeak of a pig under a gate.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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 Henry Labouchere
Her thin lips hissed out, "Ay, if thee takes thee money to the pothouse thee won't get bacon for supper."
From The Toilers of the Field by Richard Jefferies
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