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shack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
Origin unknown. Some authorities 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.
Noun
shack (plural shacks)
- A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
- (slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
Translations
Verb
shack (third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked)
- To live (in or with); to shack up.
Translations
Etymology 2
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).
Noun
shack (countable and uncountable, plural shacks)
- (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, itinerant beggar; 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.
Derived terms
- common of shack
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 [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
Anagrams
- hacks, schak
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thack
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: th?k, IPA(key): /?æk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
From Middle English thakken (“to stroke”), from Old English þaccian (“to touch gently, stroke, tap”), from Proto-Germanic *þakw?n? (“to touch lightly”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh?g- (“to touch”), Proto-Indo-European *tag-, *ta?- (“to touch”). Cognate with Old Dutch þakol?n (“to stroke”), Old Norse þykkr (“a thwack, thump, blow”), Icelandic þjökka, þjaka (“to thwack, thump, beat”), Norwegian tjåka (“to strike, beat”), Latin tang? (“touch”). More at thwack, tangent.
Verb
thack (third-person singular simple present thacks, present participle thacking, simple past and past participle thacked)
- (transitive) To strike; thump; thwack.
Etymology 2
From Middle English thacce, from thakken (“to stroke”). See above.
Noun
thack (plural thacks)
- A stroke; a thwack.
Etymology 3
From Middle English thak, thakk, thakke, from Old English þæc, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þak?, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.
Cognate with Dutch dak, Low German Dack, Danish tag (“roof”), German Dach (“roof”), Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”). Akin to Latin toga (“garment”) and Ancient Greek ?????? (stégos, “roof”). See also thatch and deck.
Noun
thack (countable and uncountable, plural thacks)
- the weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often thatch specifically
Verb
thack (third-person singular simple present thacks, present participle thacking, simple past and past participle thacked)
- To cover a roof with thack.
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