- 1簡陋小屋、棚屋
A shack is a small building that has not been built to last — thin wood, tin sheets, or whatever was near. People live in a shack when they are poor, or they keep tools in one at the back of a garden. It is not a proud word. A house is proper; a cabin can sound cute; a shack says cheap, rough, and easily knocked down. In news photos after storms, or in stories about hard lives, you will see shacks. Friends sometimes joke come over to my shack about a messy room, stretching it. Nobody uses it for a nice flat. Though actually, you will also hear shack up, which is informal and means two people start living together; that verb has wandered away from the little building. Where the noun came from, nobody is sure. Some scholars derive it from Mexican Spanish jacal, from xacalli, an adobe hut. Others point at , or think it was cut back from shackly. Those are probable stories, not a fact we can nail down.
組成Origin unknown. Some scholars derive it from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (an adobe hut). Alternatively it may come from ramshackle, or have been cut back from shackly. Compare also some Traveller words for place or house. None of this is certain.
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Shackname
- 1
A surname.
shacknoun詞源 1/ʃæk/
- 1
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- 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, […]
- 2
Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
- The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.
- 3
slangThe room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
shackverb詞源 1/ʃæk/
- 1
To live (in or with); to shack up.
shacknoun詞源 2/ʃæk/
- 1
obsoleteGrain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
- 2
obsoleteNuts which have fallen to the ground.
- 3
obsoleteFreedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
- […] 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 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
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obsoletedialectalA shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.
- All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
- 5
fishinghobbieslifestyleBait that can be picked up at sea.
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slangA drink, especially an alcoholic one.
shackverb詞源 2/ʃæk/
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obsoleteTo shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
- 2
obsoleteTo feed in stubble, or upon waste.
- They [turkeys] are then sold‥to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles.
- […] 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.
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dialectalTo wander as a vagabond or tramp.
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To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
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slangTo drink, especially alcohol.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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