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Doghouse is an old English word; taken to the USA by settlers it remained in use there although generally superseded by 'kennel' in British English, and finally returned to Britain in this colloquial phrase.
...One commentator has said that on slave-ships the passengers were chained in the hold and the seamen slept in rough shelters on deck, known as doghouses because they were bare and uncomfortable. Another suggests that the expression originated with Peter Pan (1904) in which Mr Darling lives in the doghouse as a penance for his poor treatment of the dog, as a result of which the children run away. The first recorded date of the expression (1932) rules out the first of these explanations (the shelters may have been called doghouses but they had nothing to do with disgrace) and the American origin of the expression makes the second likely. There is really no need to look any further than the familiar idea of banishing a dog to its kennel in the event of misbehaviour.
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