thunderbox

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈθʌndəbɒks/    美 /ˈθʌndɚˌbɑks/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chamber pot enclosed in a box; a portable commode. slang
    — True, our cash would run out, but Charleton wouldn't let us starve. He'd put us into shorts, and we should wash the dishes and clean the thunder-boxes and take out guests for walks.
  2. A blunderbuss; also, a cannon. obsolete
    — In the year 1346, at the battle of Crecy, the engliſh uſed a ſort of cannons, which were then called thunder-boxes.
  3. Any lavatory or toilet, especially a rudimentary outdoor latrine or toilet, or an outhouse. Australia,UK,broadly,slang
    — Meantime the ICE [Institute of Consumer Ergonomics] experts are poring over their photographs, and making measurements, which, presumably, will go into a computer, and out will come the specification for the perfect thunderbox.
  4. A box of metal balls which is shaken to create a thunder sound effect.
    — [T]wo articles, both indispensibly necessary to a theatre, are not blundered, viz. a property room, and thunder box!—no they are omitted altogether!!

词形变化

thunderboxes plural thunder-box alternative thunder box alternative thunderboxes plural thunder-box alternative

词汇关系

并列词
thunder pot

词源

词源 1
From thunder + box. Senses 1 and 2 (“portable commode; any lavatory or toilet”) are probably because of the noises that may be made while defecating.
词源 2
Probably a calque of German Donnerbüchse (“(archaic) blunderbuss; cannon”) (from Donner (“thunder”) + Büchse (“box; can; rifle”)), or its etymon Dutch donderbus (“blunderbuss”) (from donder (“thunder”) + bus (“box; container; (chiefly historical) type of early modern firearm”)).
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