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brothel:
A house or similar locale for prostitutes to receive customers and ply their trade either as employees or on commission; a house-of-prostitution . See brothel [SYN] for synonyms.
Etymology: From the Old English breothan , meaning to go to ruin. In the 14 th century, a worthless person (male or female); in the 15 th century, a gender switch had occurred and the term referred to a female prostitute ; also in the 15 th century it referred to a prostitute ; in the 16 th century it came to mean a prostitutes place of work .

Quote: Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ' I went to a brothel once in my life . I got hiccups. It was over like ... (snaps his fingers) that .'




Synonyms: cat-flat, cow-bag, camp, couple-house, coupling-house, crib-house, fancy-house, flash-crib, flash-ken, flower house (male), girly-parlor, gooseberry-ranch, house-of-fame, house-of-ill-repute, pushing-academy, pussy-palace, sink-of-iniquity, spoiling-house, temple-of-love, vaulting-house, whorehouse, whoretel, accommodation-house, bag-shanty, bagnio, bawdy house (bawdyhouse), bawdy ken, blacksmith's shop, body rud (or shop), broad-house, brothel(-house), buttocking-shop, cab-joint, joint), cannery, cat house (cathouse), cavaulting-school, chicken-ranch, chippie house (-joint), chippy-house (-joint), corinth, creep-house, crib, crystal-palace, cunt warren, flash-house, fish-pound, flesh-factory, fornix, franzy house, fuckery, gaff, gay-house, gentoo-house, hardware-shop, hog-ranch, hooker-shop, hot-house, house-of-assignation, house-of-delight, house-of-enjoyment, house-of-profession, house-of-prostitution, house-of-ill-delight, house-of-joy, house-of-vulgar-resort, hummums, immoral-house, kip(-house -shop), kit-kat-club, knocking-joint, ladies'-academy, ladies'-boarding-house, learning-house, maison-de-tolérance, moll-shop, molly-house, monkey-house, nanny, nautch-house, nautch-joint, no-tell-hotel, barrelhouse, beauty-parlor, beaver-base, bed-house, benny house (male), berker, bird-cage, blind pig (or tiger), bordel, bordello, boum-boum-parlor, buttocking-ken, buttonhole factory, caithouse, cake-shop, call house (flat, can-house, caso, chamber-of-commerce, clap-trap, creep-joint, cunt-shop, damerie (dame-erie), den-(of-sin), disorderly-house, dive, ficaro, fish-market, flash-panny, flesh-market, flesh-pot, fuck-house, funhouse, girl-shop, gooseberry-den, grinding-house, hand-job-house, hen-house, hook house (joint / shop), horehouse, house-of-civil-reception, house-of-pleasure, house-of-sin, intimaterie, Irish-clubhouse, jab-joint, jag house (male), jazz-joint, juke-house, knocking-house, knocking-shop, leisure-spa, loose-love-center, lupanar, maison-de-joie, man-trap, massage-parlor, naughty-house, notch-house, notch-joint, academy, band-box, bitchery, bodikin, bull ring (clamp), carsey, common-house, den-of-iniquity, doss (house), garden-house, girlery, goat-house, goosing-ranch, hot-hole, house-in-the-suburbs, house-of-convenience, jacksie, joy-house, ladies-college, lewd-house, mot-house, nanny-house, onery-house, peg house (male), place-of-sixpence-sinfulness, poontang-palace, red-lighterie, rub-parlor, seraglietto, seraglio, sin-spot, telephone-house, Temple-of-Venus, trick-pad, trugging-house, trugging-ken, vaulting-school, walk up, wank-house, warm-shop, warren, whore-shop, window tappery, women's college, wop-shop, working-rooms, workshop, zoo, badhouse, band-house, bat-house, boom-boom-room, bumshop, casa, cow-yard, dirty-spot, dress-house, escort service (or agency), family-hotel, fast-house, flea-and-louse, flophouse, Frenchery, house-of-all-nations, house-of-call, house-of-sale, house-of-shame, house-of-tolerance, ice-palace, leaping-house, meat-factory, nanny-shop, punch-house, public-house, pushing-school, questionable-resort, rap-club, rap-parlor, rap-studio, red-scatter, red-light (house), relief-massage, rib-joint, rub-a-tug-shop, scatter, School-of-Venus, service-station, shanty, shooting-gallery, show house (male), sin-bin, skin-room, slaughterhouse, slut-hut, smoongy, snake-pit, snake-ranch, snoozing-ken, snuggling-ken, spintry (male), sporting-house, steer-joint, stew(s), sugar-hill, timothy, tittery, toles-d'abattage, touch-crib, cunny-warren, goosing-slum, heifer-barn, house-of-ill-fame, house-of-lewdness, joint, meat-house, notcherie (notchery), nugging-house, nugging-ken, nunnery, occupying-house, old-ladies-homes, pad, panel-house, parlor-house, pheasantry, place, place-of-sixpenny-sinfulness, play-center, assignation-house, bawd's-house, bull pen (bullpen), button-factory,

See Also: show house, shanty, sin spot, parlor house, academy, beaver base, bordel, broad house, caithouse, can house, cannery, crystal palace, fancy house, flash ken, fornix, frenzy house, funhouse, girly parlor, brothel-house, carsey, bumshop, buttocking shop, button factory, buttocking ken, cab-joint, caso, cat house, chamber of commerce, corinth, couple house, coupling house, boum-boum parlor, boom boom room, beauty parlor, badhouse, bag shanty, barrelhouse, bawdy house, girlery, goat house, goosing slum, gooseberry den, gooseberry ranch, goosing ranch, grinding shop, grinding house, girl-shop, garden house, flea and louse, flesh market, family hotel, fast-house, ficaro, fish pound, fish market, dress-house, dive, flash panny, cunt shop, cunt-warren, damerie, common house, crib-house, peg house, occupying-house, old ladies homes, meat-house, moll-shop, monkey-house, mot house, nanny-shop, nanny-house, naughty-house, notcherie, nugging house, nugging-ken, shooting gallery, service station, snuggling-ken, spintry, spoiling house, questionable resort, pushing academy, pushing school, rib-joint, School of Venus, heifer barn, hog ranch, hooker shop, horehouse, hot hole, intimaterie, Irish clubhouse, jab joint, ice palace, jazz joint, joy house, kip-house, kit kat club, juke house, kip-shop, ladies' academy, ladies college, ladies' boarding house, learning house, maison de tolérance, steer joint, touch-crib, tender parnel, walk-up, wank house, warren, whore-shop, women's house, taxi steerer, zoo, Madame Orr's House, meat factory, lewd house, lighthouse, loose-love center, immoral house, house of civil reception, house of tolerance, house of vulgar resort, house split, house of all nations, house of enjoyment, house of sin, house of shame, hot house, house of sale, house of ill fame, house of convenience, house of delight, house of pleasure, house of lewdness, house in the suburbs, house of ill repute, house of profession, house of call, house of fame, house of ill delight, rub parlor, pussy palace, sporting house, slut hut, sink of iniquity, onery house, poontang palace, public house, Frenchery, fuck luck, gonk, bat house, accommodation house, assignation house, blue chamber district, boy brothel, brothel-keeping, panel house, house of assignation, bordello, gay house, snoozing-ken, working rooms, toles d'abattage, menu, mother abbess, mother midnight, mother superior, notch joint, notch house, nautch joint, nautch house, panel worker, pheasantry, seraglietto, smoongy, snake ranch, stable boss, red scatter, quiet mouse, rap club, rap parlor, rap studio, scatter, rub-a-tug shop, play center, jug hack, juice peddler, in the kip, Lady Abbess, knocking-shop, knocking-joint, knocking-house, leisure spa, landlady, maison de joie, mama-san, house of joy, hook house, hook joint, housekeeper, housemother, house-mother, house of prostitution, gentoo house, hardware shop, governess, fuck-house, gaff, cock bawd, chippie house, chippie joint, chippy-house, chippy-joint, dirty spot, disorderly house, blacksmiths shop, blind tiger, blind pig, bawd's house, abbesse, band-house, band-box, bull-ring clamp, cake-shop, casa, case keeper, cab-moll, brothel-keeper, cow-bag, cow yard, Covent Garden abbess, cavaulting school, call joint, work a crib, work from the book, wop shop, whoretel, warm shop, sugar hill, telephone house, temple of love, Temple of Venus, timothy, vaulting house, vaulting school, stew(s), tittery, trick pad, window-tappery, workshop, brothel sprout, chicken ranch, creep-joint, creep house, call house, bagnio, benny house, bodikin, bitchery, cunny-warren, den of iniquity, doss, doss house, flash crib, flash house, fuckery, hummums, jacksie, hen house, leaping-house, kip, red lighterie, pad, place of sixpenny sinfulness, place of sixpence sinfulness, procurer, nunnery, molly house, molly shop, joint, man trap, mangle, mantrap, flesh factory, fleshpot, den (of sin), clap trap, claptrap, brothel, whorehouse, massage parlor, meat market, lupanar, line, hook shop, house, moll house, no-tell hotel, punch house, panel, place, see company, seraglio, red-light, red-light house, steerer, sin bin, sit for company, slaughter house, brothel sprouts, cat flat, body shop, boy's smoking house, berker, bed house, band, aphrodette, ashes hauled, abbess, abbot, bawd, company, flash man, escort agency, escort service, fag factory, flophouse, flower house, fleabag, gay in the legs, hand job house, walking the street(s), working outside, working the bricks, working the street(s), work in a brothel, working inside, trugging ken, trugging house,

Quotes Containing brothel:
Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''I went to a brothel once in my life . I got hiccups. It was over like... (snaps his fingers) that.''


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