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单词 brick venereal
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Definition of brick venereal in English:

brick venereal

adjective
Australian derogatory, informal
  • (of a house) of timber-frame or concrete-block construction with a facing of brick, in the style of modern suburban developments.

    thousands of dinners were being whipped up in white ovens in brick venereal homes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fifty-seven brick venereal units will be built.
    • His parents' house was brick-venereal.
    • Finally we drove into the brick venereal band that swelled around the city.
noun
Australian derogatory, informal
  • A suburban house of timber-frame or concrete-block construction with a facing of brick.

    we drove along avenues of sprawling brick venereals
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We'll all be happy in our cream brick venereals with nose-in parking and the stench of raw sewage.
    • It metaphorically raises a finger to the nostalgic European styling of mass-built tile-roof villas - popularly described as 'sprawling brick venereals'.
    • If I'd wanted someone to lay the foundations of a bloody brick venereal on top of my boy's grave I would have bought a kit house.
    • They lived in a really nice three-bedroom brick venereal in Ringwood.

Origin

1970s: a pun on veneer and venereal.

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