closet vs shithouse

closet

noun
  • A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. 

  • A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet. 

  • One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes. 

  • A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity. 

  • An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad. 

  • The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager. 

adj
  • closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet) 

  • Denoting anything kept a secret or private. 

verb
  • To shut away for private discussion. 

  • To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation. 

  • To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement. 

shithouse

noun
  • An outhouse, an outbuilding used as a lavatory 

  • A coward: one who is overly fearful or timid. 

  • A filthy place. 

adj
  • Of poor quality. 

verb
  • To engage in persistent unsporting behaviour or gamesmanship; to play in a cynical, ugly manner; to cheat without being punished. 

How often have the words closet and shithouse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )