subs. (colloquial).—(1) An abode; a place of business: see DIGGINGS. (2) A jakes, or HOUSE OF EASE (q.v.): see MRS. JONES.
THE PLACE, subs. phr. (venery).—The PRIVITIES (q.v.): see MONOSYLLABLE and PRICK: also PLACE OF EASE.
1759–67. STERNE, Tristram Shandy, IX. xx. You shall see THE very PLACE, said my uncle Toby. Mrs. Wadman blushed.
PLACE OF SIXPENNY SINFULNESS, subs. phr. (old).—The suburbs: specifically a bawdy-house so situated.
1607. DEKKER, Westward Ho! v. 3. ‘Go, sail with the rest of your bawdy-traffickers to THE PLACE OF SIXPENNY SINFULNESS.…’ ‘I scorn the sinfulness of any suburbs in Christendom.’
See SPOT.
