barrackn.1
/ˈbarək/, U.S. /ˈbɛrək/ 1.
a. A temporary hut or cabin; e.g. for the use of soldiers during a siege, etc.‘Still in north. dial.’ ( N.E.D.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]
hulka1000
boothc1200
hull?c1225
lodge1290
hottea1325
holetc1380
tavern1382
scalea1400
schura1400
tugury1412
donjon?a1439
cabinc1440
coshc1490
cabinet1579
bully1598
crib1600
shed1600
hut1637
hovela1640
boorachc1660
barrack1686
bothy1750
corf1770
rancho1819
shanty1820
kraal1832
shelty1834
shackle1835
mia-mia1837
wickiup1838
caboose1839
chantier1849
hangar1852
caban1866
shebang1867
humpy1873
shack1878
hale1885
bach1927
jhuggi1927
favela1961
hokkie1973
1686 London Gaz. No. 2107/2 The Houses ruined..are not yet rebuilt, so that greatest part of the Garison is still lodged in Barraques.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Barrack or Barraque, a Hut like a little Cottage for Soldiers to lodge in a Camp, when they have no tents.
1732 J. Swift Soldier & Scholar 4 To dispose of it to the best Bidder, For a Barrack or Malt-house.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. lvi. 367 He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 192 These barracks or bothies are almost always of the most miserable description.
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b. ‘A straw-thatched roof supported by four posts, capable of being raised or lowered at pleasure, under which hay is kept.’ Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 1848.
2. A set of buildings erected or used as a place of lodgement or residence for troops.
a. usually in plural (collective), sometimes treated as a singular.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters > barracks
barrack1697
army barracks1778
military barracks1848
cuartel1852
1697 London Gaz. No. 3314/3 An Estimate of the Charge of Building a Cittadel at Limericke; and of Baracks to be made for the Soldiers.
1760 J. Wesley in Jrnl. 21 July (1827) III. 11 I preached near the barracks.
1879 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Isle of Wight (ed. 2) 43 Barracks were also erected, and the place was considered of military importance.
1884 Harper's Mag. Nov. 813/1 The college building had been seized for a barracks.
b. sometimes in singular.
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1698 Par. Reg. Drypool, Hull 21 Dec. [Baptism of] Jane, Daughter of Hugh Scot, Gentleman, Officer in the Barwick.
1699 Par. Reg. Drypool, Hull 2 Nov. Officer at the Berwick.
1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry IV. xliv. sig. Av He..lived to see his cathedral converted into a barrack.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. i. v. 66 His own ideas of a profession being limited to a barrack in a London park.
c. transferred.
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1883 Earl Cairns in Christian Commonw. 834/3 The children were not massed together in great barracks, but were broken up into small detachments.
d. (singular or plural). A large plain building or range of buildings, tenements, or flats in which a number of people are housed; also, any strikingly plain-looking building suggestive of a military barracks. Also attributive as barrack-flat.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > block of flats or apartments
land1456
tenement1681
tenement house1858
barrack1862
mansions1868
apartment house1874
apartment building1883
single-decker1896
block dwellings1899
project1932
apartment block1955
condominium1962
condo1964
multi1973
1862 E. C. Gaskell Let. 23 July (1966) 926 We went to the Hotel de Sévigné, her old town house,..an immense barrack of an old half-fortified house.
1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children III. xix. 215 ‘What a nice little room..’ said Isabel. ‘It's a beastly great barrack,’ said Silverbridge.
1886 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 329 The railway has come close under the walls of the château, while an ugly barrack has sprung up on the other side.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 20 Oct. 1/3 A feature of German housing which reformers desire to abolish: that is, of the many-storied barrack-flat system.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 716 I dont like being alone in this big barracks of a place.
1956 M. Duggan Immanuel's Land 108 The secret drink, I've heard it said, of old Ignatz, back at the barracks.
e. spec. The regular quarters of the Salvation Army.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > other > [noun] > Salvation Army quarters
barrack1887
1887 W. Booth in A. R. Wiggins Hist. Salvation Army (1964) IV. v. 189 No barracks are..to be let or used for Political Meetings of any kind.
1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara ii. in John Bull's Other Island 224 She's gone to Canning Town, to our barracks there.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
barrack-field n.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters > barracks > barrack-yard
barrack-yard1760
barrack-field1769
1769 J. Wesley Jrnl. 13 July (1916) V. 328 I was driven to the barrack-field, where were twice as many as the hall could have contained.
barrack-life n.
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1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 186 Somewhat dismayed by this specimen of barrack-life.
barrack-like n. (also barracks-like)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [adjective] > qualities of building generally
substantious1529
lightsome1548
standing1624
substantial1624
prospectless1656
light1765
pukka1777
low-browed1810
tavernous1866
barrack-like1915
demountable1939
1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist 164 The latter barrack-like edifices.
1951 S. Spender World within World 221 Albacete was a barracks-like town in a dull plain.
barrack-room n. attributive.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters > barracks > rooms in
orderly room1745
barrack-room1777
1777 in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. VII. 68 That..he leave the paying for Barrack room..to a special Committee.
1787 W. Dyott Diary 9 July (1907) I. 30 We were not able to get into our barrack-rooms.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 236 The Officer of the Day is to visit the Barrack-Rooms to see that they are properly cleaned.
1892 R. Kipling (title) Barrack-room ballads and other verses.
1945 A. J. P. Taylor Course of Ger. Hist. 100 Roon had the typical barrack-room mentality.
barrack-shed n.
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1749 in J. S. McLennan Louisbourg (1918) 410 Two Barrack Sheds of hundred feet long each.
barrack-wing n.
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1901 R. Kipling Kim vi, in McClure's Mag. Apr. 555/1 Spreading his cloth in the shade of a deserted barrack-wing.
barrack-yard n. the yard of an army barracks.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters > barracks > barrack-yard
barrack-yard1760
barrack-field1769
1760 J. Wesley Jrnl. 28 June (1913) IV. 395 The colonel..gave me the liberty of preaching in the barrack-yard.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. 436 Here on the bloody slope of Alma no less than in the barrack-yard at home.
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barrack-master n. an officer who superintends soldiers' barracks; whence barrack-master general, an appointment abolished in 1806.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > quartermaster > barrack-master
billeter1640–4
barrack-master1715
1715 J. Addison Let. 9 Mar. (1941) 313 The Barrack-Master of Waterford..may not be thought proper to be continued in that Station.
1729 J. Swift Let. 18 Jan. in Wks. (1801) XII. 298 An Irishman, who pretended to be barrack master general of Ireland.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 233 Barrack-Masters being expressly enjoined..to confine the issues of Bedding, Furniture, Utensils, and Stores to such only as, etc.
barrack-rat n. (see quot.).
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society > armed hostility > warrior > camp follower > [noun] > child born in barracks
cantonist1854
barrack-rat1936
1936 F. Richards Old-Soldier Sahib viii. 160 Children born in Barracks were referred to as ‘barrack-rats’.
barrack-room lawyer n. slang (originally Military) a layman who claims special knowledge of rules, regulations, or the law; a pompously argumentative person.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one who fancies himself knowledgeable
bush-lawyer1853
barrack-room lawyer1943
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > person engaged in
disputer1434
wrangler1561
debater1594
controvertist1608
disputant1612
controverser1614
controverter1615
controversist1623
disputator1637
polemic1639
disceptator1656
controversialist1658
eristic1659
scaldabancoa1670
fencera1680
controversionalist?1780
digladiator1803
argufier1805
polemist1825
polemicist1864
polemician1871
picador1876
barrack-room lawyer1943
1943 ‘Raff’ & ‘Armstrong’ Nice Types 77 The Barrack-Room Lawyer has an ancient copy of King's Regulations in his locker.
1970 Times 12 May 25/2 Reuther set about winkling out lazy..trade unionists..barrack-room lawyers, [etc.].
1985 Financial Times 1 Aug. 39/1 A line of policy has to be drawn..to guard against the barrack-room lawyer who seeks to draw out the dispute and involve the courts on technicalities.
barrack school n. a disparaging term formerly applied to a large district school for poor-law children.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > school for the poor
hospital1552
charity-school1682
Blue Coat Hospital1700
blue coat school1706
poor school1727
national school1814
industrial school1827
ragged school1843
kitchengarten1877
barrack school1894
1894 E. Hart in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Apr. 879/2 The system of pauper district schools organised on the ‘barrack’ principle should be mended or ended as soon as possible.
1894 E. Hart in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Apr. 928 Poor Law Barrack Schools.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 835/1 Adverse criticism..in 1874..has been directed against these large, or, as they are invidiously called, barrack schools.
barrack-square n. the square near military barracks, where drill, parades, etc., take place; also figurative, = strictness, rigorous training.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > adaptability to circumstances > [noun] > not
rigidity1620
rigidness1620
barrack-square1932
1932 Statesman (Calcutta) 21 July Our cricket..needs a bit of the barrack square.
1958 S. Race in P. Gammond Decca Bk. of Jazz x. 124 The Goodman band was the first to combine barrack-square precision with solo freedom.
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barrack yard n. Trinidad and Tobago (now historical) an area of land having small, roughly-constructed dwellings with shared facilities, originally inhabited by labourers but later also used principally as housing for the poor.Cf. yard n.1 Additions 1a, tenement yard n. (b) at tenement n. Additions.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > slum(s)
rookery1824
slum1825
slumdom1882
warren1884
slummery1892
slumland1893
barrack yard1903
tenement yard1914
borgata1929
string slum1939
squatter camp1956
favela1961
1903 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Sept. 712/2 A woman who lived in a barrack yard in the south-east of the town developed the disease [sc. varicella].
1929 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 May 25/4 Housing and Labour... [In Port of Spain] there are..‘barrack yards’,..where over 50 per cent of the city's entire population live in a terribly insanitary and overcrowded state.
2015 Borrowers & Lenders 9 2 In the weeks leading up to Carnival, calypsonians would gather in makeshift tents in barrack yards to practice and perform.
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barrackn.2
/ˈbarək/, U.S. /ˈbɛrək/, Australian English /ˈbærək/, New Zealand English /ˈbɛrək/ Australian and New Zealand.
An act, or the action, of barracking.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun]
mirth1560
dicacity1592
jest1597
pleasantry1602
raillery1642
rallery1652
badinage1658
banter1660
disport1667
badinerie1712
rig1725
bantery1739
jokery1740
persiflage1757
quizzery1809
quiz1819
chaff1841
borak1845
barrackc1890
mickey-take1968
smack talk1989
bants2008
c1890 D. McK. Wright in A. E. Woodhouse N.Z. Farm & Station Verse (1950) 33 There's the ‘barrack’ at the table and the clever things are said.
1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 13 They received him with shouts and good-natured barrack, as if he were one of the crowd.
1948 V. Palmer Golconda viii. 60 His flood of good-humoured barrack made the newcomers feel at home.
1949 P. Newton High Country Days 46 The other four, full of noisy barrack, were playing pitch and toss with a set of old horse shoes.
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barrackv.1
/ˈbarək/, U.S. /ˈbɛrək/ 1. transitive. To provide barracks for; to locate in barracks.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > quarter (troops) [verb (transitive)] > provide with barracks
barrack1701
1701 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 101 Prince Eugene has demanded..30,000 planks for barracking his troops.
1872 Echo 1 Oct. 4 When men are not barracked, when military service implies..nothing but home defence.
2. intransitive. To lodge in barracks.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > take up quarters [verb (intransitive)] > lodge in barracks
barrack1835
1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xxiii. 401 A small recruiting party, that barracked in one of the neighbouring lanes.
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barrackv.2
/ˈbarək/, U.S. /ˈbɛrək/Thesaurus »
a. intransitive. To shout jocular or derisive remarks or words of advice as partisans against a person, esp. a person, or side collectively, engaged in a contest. Also, with for, to support (a player, speaker, etc.) (esp. by shouting). (Said of a section of the crowd of spectators, originally Australian.) Also transferred.
1885 [see barracking n. and adj. at Derivatives].
1890 Melbourne Punch 14 Aug. 106/3 To use a football phrase, they all to a man ‘barrack’ for the British Lion.
1900 H. Lawson On Track 89 I was too shy to go in where there was a boy wanted and barrack for myself properly.
1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby iii. 47 It seems as if I was ‘barracking’ for Australia as against England.
1955 Glasgow Herald 25 July It has helped to correct the poor impression he has of the supporters of Scottish Rugby, who never barrack.
b. transitive. To shout in this way at (a player, speaker, etc.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)]
tauntc1530
railly1668
rally1672
banter1677
smoke1699
to get, take, or have a rise out of1703
joke1748
to run a rig1764
badinage1778
queer1778
quiz1787
to poke (one's) fun (at)1795
gammon1801
chaff1826
to run on ——1830
rig1841
trail1847
josh1852
jolly1874
chip1898
barrack1901
horse1901
jazz1927
to take the mike out ofa1935
to take the piss (out of)1945
to take the mickey (out of)1948
1901 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 6/2 The crowd had absolutely no right..to ‘barrack’ the players by yelling in concert now and again, at a critical moment.
1904 P. F. Warner How we recovered Ashes 167 They will grow up into the type of man who ‘barracked’ Crockett so disgracefully at Sydney.
1943 Coast to Coast 1942 165 Dingo kept his pipe in his mouth all evening, not saying a word till even Ward barracked him.
1963 Times 11 May 5/1 When Miss Truman led 4–1 in the first set, the crowd began to barrack every point she scored and to encourage the Italian girl with prolonged cheering.
Derivatives
ˈbarracker n. one who barracks.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] > one who
scoffer1470
taunter1552
jeerer1553
giber1563
girder1584
fleerera1627
barracker1889
signifier1956
1889 Cricket 99 Junior clubs [in Sydney] have their armies of what are known as ‘barrackers’, who follow and howl for their side.
1893 The Age 27 June 6/6 People were afraid to go to them [sc. football matches] on account of the conduct of the crowd of ‘barrackers’.
1934 A. E. Mulgan Spur of Morning 87 'Varsity barrackers gave up hope.
1963 Times 18 Feb. 20/4 It was a hot day but the heat did not deter the barrackers as England struggled for runs.
ˈbarracking n. and adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [adjective]
bantering1660
rallying1662
quizzing1797
quizzical1801
chaffing1826
chaffy1855
bantery1862
joshing1864
barracking1885
mickey-taking1959
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] > action of
japingc1380
jesting1526
raillying1612
banteringa1672
rallying1673
smoking1781
ragging1788
quizzing1795
chaffing1826
quizzification1856
joshing1864
barracking1885
ribbing1913
mickey-taking1967
1885 in S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. (1945) xvii. 309 Barracking.
1890 J. S. Farmer Slang Barracking (Australian), banter, chaff.
1893 The Age 27 June 6/6 The ‘barracking’ that was carried on at football matches.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 1 Mar. 5/1 A spontaneous burst of cheering and ‘barracking’, with loud cries of ‘Bravo, Stoddart!’ were heard.
1904 P. F. Warner How we recovered Ashes 73 Hayward and myself had to undergo some ‘barracking’ for playing slowly.
1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 543/2 Only once..was a querulous barracking voice raised.
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