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How did I know that bach meant a small holiday home if it's exclusively a Zild term? Did it lodge (whoops)somewhere in the back of my mind from reading The Bone People 15 or more years ago? Why do I keep thinking that there's something Gaelic about it? Some sort of temporary overnight shelter for hunters or something like that? How can I google this without running into page after page of baroque music fans?
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something Gaelic
Taking us neatly fool circle, Ty Bach is Welsh for... brick outhouse!
A term for an overnight house is ty un nos, which if you could get away with building overnight on common land you could establsih squatters' rights.
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often known as the Lavender Lorry in the U.K.
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Taking us neatly fool circle, Ty Bach is Welsh for... brick outhouse!
I thought so...:
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wiggle Bach
Loved this Anna!
In Welsh 'Bach' means little - the colloquial expression for what the Ozzies call a dunny would be Ty Bach (literally, little house). I often imagine the confused discussion of Welsh musicologists when discussing Bach's family, given the local tendency to patronymics followed by diminutives
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Ahem. Women with large breasts are said to be "stacked." Bricks are stacked to make structures with them. Hence a curvaceous woman is built like a brick house, and she's mighty mighty, and letting it allllll hang out.
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<<bricks are stacked to make structures...
bricks are stacked in storage, in building they are laid.
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bricks are stacked in storage, in building they are laid. [in rows or tiers]
The former verb stressing their vertical dimension; the latter stressing the horizontal.
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built like a brick outhouse
BTW, in this phrase I've never heard anyone say outhouse -- it's invariably sh*thouse.
The first post in this thread (by mav) makes me wonder if usage may differ elsewhere in this regard. Mav, any info?
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In reply to:
bricks are stacked in storage, in building they are laid.
heh heh heh. I'm not touching THAT one for fear of the gutter police.
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