dead-'ouse

Updated: July 4, 2026

Inside the tent Tommy was free and unequivocal about the whole tribe of orderlies, the criticism culminating in a ghoulish story from my right-hand neighbour, told in broadest Yorkshire, about one in Malta, "who stole the boots off the corpse in the dead-'ouse."

Erskine Childers - In the Ranks of the C.I.V.