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shackEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Unknown. Some scholars 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. Compare Tavringer Romani hak (“place, house”), Traveller Norwegian hak (“place”).
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Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗shackEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From shagged or shagged out.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- ShackEnglish · e-38700-1469
Shack, shak, v.i. to tramp or wander about.—n. a tramp, a vagabond.
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Shack, shak, v.i. to shed or fall out, as ripe grain from the ear: to feed on stubble: (U.S.) to hibernate, to go into winter quarters.—n. grain, &c., fallen on the ground: liberty of winter pasturage: a hastily-built ca
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