shack.
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
Meaning & usage
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Some scholars derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”). Alternatively, the word may instead come from ramshackle/ramshackly (e.g., old ramshackly house) or perhaps it may be a back-formation from shackly. Compare Tavringer Romani hak (“place, house”), Traveller Norwegian hak (“place”).
To live (in or with); to shack up.
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Some scholars derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”). Alternatively, the word may instead come from ramshackle/ramshackly (e.g., old ramshackly house) or perhaps it may be a back-formation from shackly. Compare Tavringer Romani hak (“place, house”), Traveller Norwegian hak (“place”).
Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Bait that can be picked up at sea.
A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
Where this word comes from
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).
To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
To drink, especially alcohol.
Where this word comes from
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).
Alternative form of shag (“exhausted; tiring”).
Where this word comes from
From shagged or shagged out.
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