shack
See also: Shack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
Some authorities derive this word from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”)[1]. Others have claimed this origin is phonetically impossible because they assume "jacal" starts with the Spanish sound [h], when in fact the native word started with the sound [ʃ]. The word may instead come from ramshackle.[2]
Noun
shack (plural shacks)
- A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
- 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, […]
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- Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
Translations
crude hut
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Verb
shack (third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked)
Translations
Live in or with
Noun
shack (uncountable)
- (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
- [...] 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
- 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
- (Britain, US, dialectal, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)
- Henry Ward Beecher
- All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
Derived terms
Verb
shack (third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked)
- (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
- […] 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, dialectal) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
References
- “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.
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