WORKHOUSE
NOUNS
► BANDBOX a small or rural workhouse or jail; a county jail, esp. one from which it seems easy to escape → Bk1975 US prison sl.
► BASTILE ► BASTILLE the workhouse → 1859 Eng. dial.
► BEAD-HOUSE a workhouse → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BIG-HOUSE the workhouse → 1868 Eng. dial.
► FACTORY the parish workhouse → Bk1900 Eng. dial. obs.
► LARGE HOUSE the workhouse → M19 sl.
► LUMP the workhouse → 1874 sl.
► UNION, THE the workhouse → L19 sl.
► WORKIE the workhouse → 1930s US sl.
► WORKUS ► THE WORKUS the workhouse → M19 Cockney pronunciation
NOUNS – PERSON
► BUTTONS a person appointed to oversee work in a workhouse → 1885 sl. obs.
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