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Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ʃæk/
Audio (UK) - Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1[edit]
Origin unknown. Some authorities derive this word from Mexican Spanishjacal, from Nahuatlxacalli(“adobe hut”).[1]
Alternatively, the word may instead come from ramshackle/ramshackly (e.g., old ramshackly house) or perhaps it may be a back-formation from shackly.[2]
Noun[edit]
shack (pluralshacks)
- A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
- The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
- Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
- (slang) The room from which a ham radiooperator transmits.
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Verb[edit]
shack (third-person singular simple presentshacks, present participleshacking, simple past and past participleshacked)
Ice Fishing Shacks
- To live (in or with); to shack up.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scotsshag(“refuse of barley or oats”).
Shackshuka
Noun[edit]
shack (countable and uncountable, pluralshacks)
- (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
- (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
- (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
- 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke[2]
- […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
- 1996, J M Neeson, Commoners[3]
- The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
- 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke[2]
- (Britain,US,dialect,obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerantbeggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)
- 1868, Henry Ward Beecher, Norwood, or Village Life in New England
- All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
- (fishing)Bait that can be picked up at sea.
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Verb[edit]
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shack (third-person singular simple presentshacks, present participleshacking, simple past and past participleshacked)
- (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
- (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
- 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke[4]
- […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
- (Britain,dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
- (US,intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
References[edit]
- ^ “shack” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- ^ “shack” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams[edit]
- hacks, schak
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