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hut.

A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.

3 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/hʌt/Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation/hɐt/Australia, New-Zealand/hʊt/Northern-England

  1. A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.

    a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut

  2. A small wooden shed.

    a groundsman’s hut

  3. A small stack of grain.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.

verb/hʌt/Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation/hɐt/Australia, New-Zealand/hʊt/Northern-England

  1. To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.

    archaic · transitive
    to hut troops in winter quarters

  2. To take shelter in a hut.

    archaic · intransitive

  3. To stack (sheaves of grain).

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.

intj/hʌt/Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation/hɐt/Australia, New-Zealand/hʊt/Northern-England

  1. Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.

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A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.

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