be built like a brick shithouse

  • 11brick shithouse — noun a) An article built more robustly than its function requires; implies an element of indestructability. Part Polynesian, part Melanesian, part brick shithouse. He crossed the gym with the proprietary waddle of a troll in its lair, […]. b) A… …

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  • 12shithouse — /ˈʃɪthaʊs / (say shithows) Colloquial (taboo) –noun Also, shouse. 1. a toilet. –adjective 2. disgusting; unpleasant: a shithouse remark. 3. extremely incompetent: a shithouse driver. 4. of extremely poor quality: a shithouse play. 5.… …

  • 13built — I UK [bɪlt] / US adjective 1) used for describing the size and shape of someone s body She s built like a dancer – very tall and slim. a powerfully built wrestler 2) used for showing where a machine or structure was produced or made the Chinese… …

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  • 14Outhouse — This article is about a type of building or structure used primarily as a toilet . For other uses, see Outhouse (disambiguation). An outhouse at Goat Peak, 6,305 ft (1,922 m) above sea level An outhouse is a small structure separate from a main… …

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  • 15dainty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. delicate, exquisite; fastidious, neat; delicious. See beauty, taste, care, food. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Notable for fineness or fragility] Syn. delicate, fragile, petite, frail, thin, light,… …

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  • 16rotundity — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Rounded out quality Nouns 1. rotundity, roundness, cylindricity, sphericity, spheroidicity, orbicularity, globosity, globularity. See circularity, curvature. 2. (spherical object) cylinder, cylindroid,… …

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  • 17headlights —    the breasts of an adult female    Viewed sexually by a male, especially in the days when the lamps were not recessed into the bodywork of the car:     ... built like the brick shithouse you ve always heard about, five foot ten in her stocking… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 18brickhouse — n. a large breasted woman. (A confused or euphemistic reference to built like a brick shithouse. Usually objectionable.) □ Clara’s a real brickhouse. I don’t see how she stands up. □ Look at the boosiasms on that brickhouse! …

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