Limehouse

See also: limehouse

English

Etymology

The place name is a reference to local lime oasts. The earliest reference is to Les Lymhostes, in 1356. The verb is a reference to a speech made there by the Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George in 1909.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /lʌɪmhaʊs/

Proper noun

Limehouse

  1. A district in eastern London, now part of Tower Hamlets.

Verb

Limehouse (third-person singular simple present Limehouses, present participle Limehousing, simple past and past participle Limehoused)

  1. (dated, Britain) To make a fiery political speech.

References
  • OED 2nd edition 1989
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