manhole

English

A manhole cover in Twickenham, Greater London

Etymology

man +‎ hole

Pronunciation

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(UK) IPA^(key): /mænhəʊl/

Noun

manhole (plural manholes)

A hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations.
A hole providing access to the inside of a boiler, tank etc.
(informal) A man's anus, in a sexual context.
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:manhole.

Usage notes

In contexts such as government documents where anything that might be perceived as sexist is avoided, this has mostly been replaced by maintenance hole

Derived terms

manhole cover

Translations

a hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations

Armenian: մտոց (hy) (mtocʿ), լյուկ (hy) (lyuk)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沙井 (zh) (shājǐng), 窨井 (zh) (yìnjǐng), 人孔 (zh) (rénkǒng)
Dutch: mangat (nl) n
Finnish: kulkuaukko
French: regard d'égout m, bouche d'égout f, trou d'homme (fr) m
German: Mannloch (de) n, Kontrollschacht m
Icelandic: mannop n, mannsmuga f
Italian: tombino (it) m
Japanese: マンホール (manhōru), 人孔 (ja) (じんこう, jinkō)
Korean: 맨홀 (ko) (maenhol)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kum m, mannhull n (also in tanks etc.)

Nynorsk: kum m

Polish: właz (pl) m
Portuguese: bueiro (pt) m
Russian: люк (ru) m (ljuk), лаз (ru) m (laz)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шахт m

Roman: šaht (sh) m
Spanish: pozo (es) m, alcantarilla (es) f
Swedish: gatubrunn c, manhål
Ukrainian: люк m (ljuk)
Venetian: gatoło m
Welsh: twll archwilio m

See also

manhole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

Holeman

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