built like a brick shithouse

adj

"built-like-a-brick-shithouse" is a 24-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“built like a brick shithouse” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
28
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of a man, having a muscular body, particularly with well-developed muscles of the chest, arms and abdominals.

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Index EN-built-like-a-brick-shith · built like a brick shithouse · English

built like a brick shithouse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 28 letters
  • VOW-10 10 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for built like a brick shithouse
PropertyValue
Headwordbuilt like a brick shithouse
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “built like a brick shithouse” in English

built like a brick shithouseranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

built like a brick shithouse is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for built like a brick shithouse in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From the figurative extension of the idea that an outhouse is overbuilt if one builds it with bricks. The correct English form is built like a brick shithouse, spelled B-U-I-L-T- -L-I-K-E- -A- -B-R-I-C-K- -S-H-I-T-H-O-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Of a man, having a muscular body, particularly with well-developed muscles of the chest, arms and abdominals.
  2. 2
    Of a woman, having an athletic or muscular body; often implying also having large breasts or an attractive body.
  3. 3
    (Of an object) Exceptionally well constructed; strong or tough; overbuilt or overengineered.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how built like a brick shithouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. With a nickname that aptly translates to "Tree Stump" in Portugese,^([sic]) Palhares is built like a brick shit-house.
  2. Sonia is a hot young blonde who is built like a brick shithouse! She is stacked and well put together.

Etymology

From the figurative extension of the idea that an outhouse is overbuilt if one builds it with bricks.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "built like a brick shithouse"?
"built like a brick shithouse" is spelled B-U-I-L-T- -L-I-K-E- -A- -B-R-I-C-K- -S-H-I-T-H-O-U-S-E.
What does "built like a brick shithouse" mean?
As an adjective, "built like a brick shithouse" means: Of a man, having a muscular body, particularly with well-developed muscles of the chest, arms and abdominals.
What is the origin of the word "built like a brick shithouse"?
From the figurative extension of the idea that an outhouse is overbuilt if one builds it with bricks. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list