Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gighouse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gig-house
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A building for keeping a gig (horse-drawn carriage) when not in use; carriage house.

Example Sentences

"In Reg. v. Coots, 2 Cox C. C. (Eng) 188, two boys were found concealed in a corn bin in an open gighouse, half a mile from the house in which the burglary was committed."
"The most significant exception to this is the gighouse added to the west end of the building."
"And their stout ship, rigged for Antacrctic waters, was a raft constructed from weatherboard offcuts the builders had left stacked behind the stable and gighouse, now lashed to half a dozen firmly sealed kerosene tins."

Etymology

From gig + house.

Inflected Forms

gighouses (plural) gig-house (alternative) gig house (alternative)

Questions

What does gighouse mean?: A building for keeping a gig (horse-drawn carriage) when not in use; carriage house.
Where does gighouse come from?: From gig + house.

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