built like a brick shithouse
"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.
Corpus desk
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
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | built like a brick shithouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “built like a brick shithouse” in English
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
- 1Of a man, having a muscular body, particularly with well-developed muscles of the chest, arms and abdominals.
- 2Of a woman, having an athletic or muscular body; often implying also having large breasts or an attractive body.
- 3(Of an object) Exceptionally well constructed; strong or tough; overbuilt or overengineered.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how built like a brick shithouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With a nickname that aptly translates to "Tree Stump" in Portugese,^([sic]) Palhares is built like a brick shit-house.
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.