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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Did you know that Arnold drives his hummer to his LA “househole”? Does that means the big square hole in his garage? If he keeps his house neat, is it still a househole?
(original at http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/19/638/)
Looking around, I discovered that if he lived in Provo, Utah, he might get effective cleaning service from the “Strong Househole Cleaning” company: http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=41692 … fr=&lcscb=
That way he might avoid the painful consequences of “househole mold”:
http://www.engnet.us/p/b.aspx/7775/19066
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I thought that this might be a typo, but there are some 9,000 raw Google hits for “househole,” compared to about 116 million for “household.” It seems like a reshaping. Is it an eggcorn? Maybe there’s some chain of association from warren/den > hole > house?
There are, by the way, three or four loosely related threads in the Forum, but none seem to be quite this one.
HOLED up (holed) [2006-11-09 16:25:59]
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1271
hold (holed) up [2007-12-02 16:16:23]
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2329
beholding to for beholden to
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=253
And patschwieterman notes, “And the ‘hold’ of a ship – from ‘hole’ – also seems like it was a probably an unconscious change,” in this discussion:
Folk etymology
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1871
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