or bog-shop, subs. phr. (low).—A privy; a necessary house: see MRS. JONES, and MY AUNT.
1671. R. HEAD, The English Rogue, pt. I., xii., 123 (1874). Fearing I should catch cold, they out of pity covered me warm in a BOGG-HOUSE.
1689. General Account Book, Oct. 1689–Oct. 1690 [Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, III.] ‘To Browne, the watchman, for burying the old man that kept the BOG-HOUSE, 16s.’
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BOG-HOUSES, privies.
1703. WARD, The London Spy, pt. III., 47. Its walls being adorn’d with as many unsavoury Finger-dabs as an Inns of Court BOG-HOUSE.
1754. B. MARTIN, English Dictionary, 2 ed. BOG-HOUSE, a privy, or necessary-house.
