kennel n.2
1. a police or prison cell.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Reading Mercury 31 July 4/5: He was too drunk to know he had been snoring in the kennel in Piccadilly and bowed affably [...] when told he was discharged. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 98/2: kennel n. a cell belonging to a member of the Mongrel Mob. |
2. a house; a brothel (i.e. a house n.1 (1)); thus v. kennel, to live (together).
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Flash (NY) 29 Jan. n.p.: With him she kennelled in an apartment over a grocery [...] in the day time, and raked the gutters for custom in the night. | |
| Wkly Varieties (Boston, MA) 3 Sept. 6/1: The lowest kennels where cheap temporary love is peddled. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Dundee Courier 26 Nov. 4/2: This rinsing-out of a fashionable courtesan’s kennel generally brings very high prices for articles of vertue, or vice, put up for sale . | |
| Beggars 104: House – kennel. | |
| Adventures of Johnny Walker 190: [as cit. 1909]. | |
| (con. 1910–20s) Hell’s Kitchen 119: Kennel ... house. | |
| Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 6: Kennel: House. |
3. (US) a booth, any small structure reminiscent of a dog-kennel.
| in Marschall That Old Gang o’ Mine (1984) 33: They [...] run an estaminet and hot-dog kennel on the Broadwalk during the day. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US milit.) foot inspection.
| S.F. Chronicle 1 June H5/7: The draftees assigned to Camp Claiborne, in Louisiana, got out a glossary of slang terms to describe everyday things in army life [...] The Louisiana lads call [...] foot inspection, a ‘kennel show’. |
In phrases
(US) shoes.
| Edwardsville Intelligencer (IL) 14 Sept. 4/4: The Flappers’ Dictionary [...] Dog Kennels: Pair of Shoes. |
gin.
| The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz, [...] or Apricock-Water, or Roll-me-in-the-Kennel, or Diddle. |
a bedroom.
| London Spy III 49: When [...] we had made our selves tolerable Figures to appear by Day-light, we descended from our Snoaring-Kennel. |
In exclamations
(Aus.) go away! be quiet!
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. WWI) Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: go to the kennel. Shut up, take yourself off. |
(Aus.) stop talking!
| Digger Dialects 30: kennel-up — Stop talking. | |
| (con. WWI) Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: kennel-up. Stop talking. |