1. backhouse - Noun
2. Backhouse - Proper noun
A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFriedrich Max Müller ascribes the same French to Voltaire in October 1851: "Review of Franz Bopp, Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic Languages, transl. by Edward Backhouse Eastwick" Edinburgh Review v. 94, no. CXCII p. 298. Voltaire
Roger E. Backhouse and Steven G. Medema, ibid, p. 223 Due to the lack of strong consensus, and that production, distribution and consumption of goods and services is the prime area of study of economics, the old definition still stands in many quarters. Source: Internet