The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backhouse \Back"house`\, n. [Back, a. + house.] A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; an outhouse; a necessary.
Wiktionary
n. A smaller building behind a main building; often a privy.
Wikipedia
Backhouse may refer to:
- Dan Backhouse, frequently called Sir Daniel of Backhouseshire - All round splendid gentleman, wholly unrelated to "Outhouses".
- Outhouse, frequently called backhouse in Canada
- Backhouse (surname), people with the surname Backhouse
Backhouse is a surname, and may refer to:
- Constance Backhouse, CM OOnt FRSC (born 1952), a Canadian legal scholar and historian, specializing in gender and race discrimination,
- Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906), English banker, J.P., and MP for Darlington; son of Jonathan Backhouse (1779–1842).
- Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (1873–1944), British would-be oriental scholar and literary forger; son of Jonathan Backhouse (1849–1918).
- James Backhouse (1794–1869), English botanist and Quaker missionary; a first cousin of Jonathan Backhouse (1779–1842)
- James Backhouse (iv) (1825–1890), botanist, archaeologist, and geologist; son of James Backhouse (1794–1869)
- Jonathan Backhouse (1779–1842), banker
- Jonathan Backhouse (1849–1918), British baronet and banker; son of Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906)
- Robert Backhouse (1854–1940), well-known horticulturist and British archer in the 1908 Olympics; great-nephew of Jonathan Backhouse (1779–1842).
- Roger Backhouse (1878–1939), British admiral of the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord 1939; son of Jonathan Backhouse (1849–1918)
- Roger Backhouse (economist), Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham
- Tony Backhouse (born 1947), New Zealand musician
- William Ormston Backhouse (1885–1962), English agriculturalist and geneticist. Son of Robert Backhouse (1854–1940).
Usage examples of "backhouse".
Their names were given: Roger Hewitson, William Parrett, Edward Backhouse and George Urch.
Florian Backhouse, chairman of Continuum, made a joke and Mary laughed briefly.
They had intended to have an air-conditioned trailer brought up here for the visit by Florian Backhouse and his merry men, but Bookbinder decided that it would be regarded as a foolish extravagance.
The walls dribbled with reflected light and the polished table shone like glass, so that when Florian Backhouse sat down at the head of the table, his reflection was almost perfect.
The skin around the eyes of Florian Backhouse tightened as though a bright light had been shone upon him: it was a smile.
Not in an analytical way, as he had watched Backhouse in order to borrow some of his mannerisms.
Calamity rolled from her bed and staggered to the door of the room, opened it and made a hurried dash down the back stairs, out into the cold chill air of the morning, racing for the backhouse and hoping she would make it in time to prevent disgracing herself.
She fisted her hands on her ample hips, bouncing in a manner reminiscent of a backhouse hen.
You will probably have heard of the very sudden death of Jonathan Backhouse, whilst his wife was laboring under a religious engagement in the north of our county.
How did Lona Walk spend the four years while waiting for Martin Backhouse to drop into her era?
Smoke wreathed his head in the stagnant air inside the backhouse, and the heavy but not altogether unpleasant odor of a clean and well-limed outhouse added to his sense of well-being.
No way in hell was he going out to the backhouse for his morning dump.
She said Deel was on his way out to the backhouse for his morning shit .
If I break wind in the backhouse, I have to look over my shoulder lest some listening spy call it treason.
He is after me to stand at the backhouse door with a broom in my hand and my hair falling about my ears, but as I am much too grand for such pastimes these days, he paints himself, like Rembrandt.