shack

nounshanty

Synonyms for shack

noun shanty

Word Origin & History

1878, American English and Canadian English, of unknown origin, perhaps from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli "wooden hut." Or perhaps a back-formation from dialectal English shackly "shaky, rickety" (1843), a derivative of shack, a dialectal variant of shake (v.). Another theory derives shack from ramshackle.

Slang meaning "house" attested by 1910. In early radio enthusiast slang, it was the word for a room or office set aside for wireless use, 1919, perhaps from earlier U.S. Navy use (1917). As a verb, 1891 in the U.S. West in reference to men who "hole up" for the winter; from 1927 as "to put up for the night;" phrase shack up "cohabit" first recorded 1935 (in Zora Neale Hurston).

Example Sentences for shack

Now, waking, his hand was working nervously across the floor of the shack.

Then you'll turn around and walk straight back to the shack.

But the shack filled with his disapproval of her reluctance to free him from his promise.

At the time she came to Martin's shack, she was potentially any one of a half dozen women.

There were three men camped in the shack here, and we spent the night with them.

As soon in fact, as he could make the trip to the shack and return.

He walked to a corner of the shack and turned off the tired air pump.

He desired to hide himself; entering his shack, he pushed to the door.

Then Eyelids came in, and picked him up and carried him back to the shack.

He picked up a lantern and, having lighted it, left the shack.

shack

Synonyms for shack

camp

cottage

dump

house

houses

shack

Synonyms for shack

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