shackn.¹

Brit.

/ʃak/, U.S.

/ʃæk/

Etymology: < shack, dialect variant of shake v. Compare shake n.¹ 2e.

Now dialect.

1. Grain fallen from the ear, and available for the feeding of pigs, poultry, etc., after the harvest; a supply of fallen grain for this purpose. Also, fallen beech-mast or acorns.

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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by birds > poultry food

gobbetc1384

shack1536

patoun1600

cram1614

chicken meat1684

soilinga1825

chicken feed1843

cram-cake1888

laying meal1908

laying mash1926

Tottenham Pudding1944

balancer meal1950

balancer mash1955

the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > pig fodder > other pig fodder

defrutc1420

hog meata1500

shack1536

hog potato1776

pig potato1796

Tottenham Pudding1944

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > grain fallen from ear

shack1536

1536 Rolls House MS. in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) III. 93 (note) Able and sufficient with the help of the shakke in the stubbe to succour and feed as many great beasts..as the land would keep.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Rogat. Week iv. 251 b The common balkes and walkes, whiche good men before tyme, made the greater and broder,..partlye for the better shacke in haruest tyme, to the more comfort of his poore neyghbours cattell.

1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 lxxiv. 322 [Produce of farm (Suffolk)] One hundred coomb of wheat..£75 0 0. Shack for cattle, £1 10 0.

1802 Sporting Mag. 20 64 Lonely watch'd he the grunters all day, As they rooted the stubbles for shack.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 337 Shack, the corn left in a barley or pea field, after the crop has been carried. Pigs and poultry are then turned in ‘to shack’. ‘Tha's good shack in that there filld’.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shack... The shaken grain remaining on the ground when harvest and gleaning are over; or, in woodland countries, the acorns, or mast under the trees.

1858 U.S. Newspaper in J. F. Morgan Eng. Norm. Occup. iii. 57 (note) The woods in the vicinity of Sandusky..were frequented by vast numbers of wild hogs, which..grew fat upon the shack which every where abounded.

a. In phrase to be (also go or run) at shack, to go to shack, said of pigs, poultry, etc., when turned into the stubble to feed on the ‘shack’ (sense 1) after the harvest.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > types of pasturing

summer1601

to be (also go or run) at shack1706

range1816

shacka1825

ranch1851

summering place1968

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Shack, (in Norfolk and Suffolk)..to go at Shack in that County, signifies [of Hogs] as much as to go at large.

1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 387 Shack, stock turned into the stubbles after harvest are said to be at shack. Grounds lying open to common fields are said to ‘lie quite shack’.

b. The right of sending pigs or poultry to ‘run at shack’ on another's land after the harvest; also, in extended sense, the right of pasturing cattle in winter on another's land.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights

pannage1392

commonc1405

stint1437

agistmenta1450

intercommon1449

commonty1466

foggage1471

communitya1475

gist1493

commoning?a1509

arrentationc1540

wether gang1561

browsage1570

pasturage1572

feed1575

intercommoner1581

frankfold1609

broouage1610

fellow commoner1612

horsegate1619

frankfoldage1628

shack1629

tatha1641

retropannage1679

levancy and couchancya1691

commonance1701

stinter1701

horse-lease1721

stray1736

goose-gate1739

commonage1792

twinter1846

couchance1886

levance1886

sheep-stray1891

stintholder1894

1629 E. Coke Rep. vii. ii. 5 Ceux parolx, daler Shack, sont tant adire comme daler a libertie ou daler alarge.

1629 E. Coke Rep. vii. ii. 5 Le dit common appel Shacke.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 247 Shack is a peculiar name of Common, used in the Countrey of Norfolke.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Shack, (in Norfolk and Suffolk) the liberty of Winter-Pasturage;..Also a Custom in Norfolk to have Common for Hogs, from the end of Harvest till Seed-time in all Mens Grounds.

3. An animal or animals ‘at shack’.

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the world > animals > by eating habits > [noun] > herbivore > that feeds on stubble

shack1842

1842 C. W. Johnson Farmer's Encycl. 1087/1 Shack,..the stock turned upon the stubble after harvest.

1859 All Year Round 10 Dec. 160 The pig is an admirable gleaner, ‘a shack’ they call him in Norfolk.

Compounds

General attributive.

shack-land n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > harvest-field > stubble field

arrishOE

eddisha1728

stubble-rig?1780

stubble1792

shack-land1821

1821 Monthly Repos. Feb. 97/1 A great part..of our lands were formerly shack lands, of which the occupant had the use only whilst his crop was on, the land then reverting to the community for pasturage.

shack-time n. (cf. shake-time at shake n.¹ 2e.)

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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding-time

shack-time1573

feeding-time1832

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > grazing time

grass timec1405

shack-time1573

run1796

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19 Yoke neuer thy swine, while the shacktime doth last.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19^v Wher loue among neighbors, do beare any stroke, whiles shacktime endureth, men vse not to yoke.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shack-time, the time when pigs are at shack.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

shackn.²

Etymology: ? Short for shack-rag n. Compare shake n.²

dialect and U.S.

1. An idle disreputable fellow, a vagabond.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun]

ribalda1250

brethelingc1275

filec1300

waynouna1350

waster1352

lorel1362

losel1362

land-leaper1377

javelc1400

leftc1400

lorerc1400

shackerellc1420

brethel1440

never-thrift1440

ne'er-thrifta1450

never-thrivinga1450

nebulona1475

breelc1485

naughty pack?1534

brathel1542

unsel155.

pelf1551

wandrel?1567

land-loper1570

scald1575

baggage1594

arrant1605

good-for-nothing1611

hilding1611

vauneant1621

idle-pack1624

thimble-maker1654

never-do-well1664

ne'er-be-good1675

shack1682

vagabond1686

shag-bag1699

houndsfoot1710

blackguard1732

ne'er-do-well1737

trumpery1738

rap1742

good-for-naught1773

rip1781

mauvais sujet1793

scamp1808

waffie1808

loose fish1809

ne'er-do-good1814

hard bargain1818

vaurien1829

sculpin1834

shicer1846

wastrel1847

scallywag1848

shack-bag1855

beat1865

rodney1877

git1939

no-hoper1944

piss artist1962

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person

brethelingc1275

filec1300

dogc1330

ribald1340

waynouna1350

waster1352

lorel1362

losel1362

land-leaper1377

triflera1382

brothelc1390

javelc1400

leftc1400

lorerc1400

shackerellc1420

brethel1440

never-thrift1440

vagrant1444

ne'er-thrifta1450

never-thrivinga1450

nebulona1475

breelc1485

naughty pack?1534

brathel1542

carrion1547

slim1548

unsel155.

pelf1551

shifterc1562

rag1566

wandrel?1567

land-loper1570

nothing-worth1580

baggage1594

roly-poly1602

bash-rag1603

arrant1605

ragabash?1609

flabergullion1611

hilding1611

hard bargain1612

slubberdegullion1612

vauneant1621

knick-knacker1622

idle-pack1624

slabberdegullion1653

thimble-maker1654

whiffler1659

never-do-well1664

good-for-nought1671

ne'er-be-good1675

shack1682

vagabond1686

shabaroon1699

shag-bag1699

houndsfoot1710

ne'er-do-well1737

trumpery1738

rap1742

hallion1789

scamp1808

waffie1808

ne'er-do-good1814

vaurien1829

sculpin1834

shicer1846

good-for-nothing1847

wastrel1847

scallywag1848

shack-bag1855

beat1865

toe-rag1875

rodney1877

toe-ragger1896

low-lifer1902

punk1904

lowlife1909

ringtail1916

git1939

no-hoper1944

schlub1950

piss artist1962

dead leg1964

1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Concl. 64 Such vile Shacks as will swear an hundred Oaths for Nothing, or a Whisker for Something.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §120 293 Great Ladies are more apt to take Sides with talking flattering Gossips than such a Shack as Fitzharris.

c1800 Derbysh. Rhyme in W. Andrews Bk. Oddities (1882) 84 Ripley ruffians, Butterley blacks, Swanwick bull-dogs, Alfreton shacks.

1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales lxxviii A fellow..having much the appearance of a town shack.

1892 S. R. Hole Mem. xvi. 192 The shack is a man [in Notts] who objects to regular employment, but can and will do anything except ordinary work.

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2. ‘A worthless horse; a plug’ (Webster 1911).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

shackn.³

Etymology: Of obscure origin. The late J. Platt, Jun., suggested ( Notes & Queries Ser. x. XII. 306/2) that the source might be the Mexican jacal , Aztec xacalli , wooden hut. Compare shackle n.³

1. A roughly built cabin or shanty of logs, mud, etc. Also applied to other similar structures.

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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

1878 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 42 Too much praise cannot be given to these homesteaders for..the erection of this building, while they, themselves, were living in shacks.

1881 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. in Notes & Queries 6th Ser. V. 65/2 The average ‘shack’ comprises but one room, and is customarily roofed with earth, supported by poles.

1882 Cent. Mag. Sept. 774/1 He [a stockman in the north-west] lives, as a rule, in a wretched dirt-roof ‘shack’.

1932 A. Christie Peril at End House v. 70 We saw a lot of messy-looking shacks, and then by good luck we found this.

1936 D. Glover Home Thoughts 18 A mountain shack Where blankets, candles, frying-pan Bespeak the only needs of man.

1939 Denver Post 2 Jan. 16 b/6 Other work will include the building of a ski shack.

1950 J. Baxter in Landfall (N.Z.) XIII. 10 There in a corrugated iron shack Behind a brushwood fence, he lives alone.

1960 Daily Mail 11 Apr. 4/4 In Durban..Bren guns and heavy machine-guns covered the hillsides spotted with native shacks.

2. U.S. slang. A house.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun]

houseeOE

homeOE

houseOE

roofa1382

housinga1400

bike1508

dwelling-house1530

firehouse1530

standing house?1532

mansion house1533

maisonc1540

beinga1616

smoke-housea1687

drum1846

khazi1846

casa1859

shack1910

kipsie1916

machine for living (in)1927

1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy xiii. 128 You stay in that shack. Don't leave it for a second, understand?

1930 Living Age 1 Apr. 188 I've gotta tote this outfit of waffles and candy to grandmomma's shack.

3. U.S. slang. = radio shack n. at radio n. Compounds 3.

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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > room or office

wireless shack1911

radio shack1917

shack1929

1929 Amer. Speech 5 49 Shack, wireless room or office.

1947 Christian Sci. Monitor 15 Jan. 9/1 Al's [ham radio] station, like most of the other 75,000 American amateurs, is a bedroom converted into what they call a ‘shack’.

1960 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 29 Sept. 39/3 Hams have their own slang terms. ‘Rig’ is what they call their sending and receiving equipment and ‘shack’ is the name of the room or structure housing their sets.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [adjective] > type of

log cabin1770

beehive-shaped1858

shack1885

Quonset1945

1885 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Mar. 426 The rude shack~like store has changed to an imposing structure of stone.

1909 N.Y. Evening Post 4 Feb. in Thornton Amer. Gloss. (at cited word) An Italian was murdered in his bunk by his shack-mate.

1923 H. Steele Spirit-of-Iron 105 Where little shack-towns rose, it knew there should be cities.

1962 G. MacEwan Blazing Old Cattle Trail i. 4 The residents of what had been an unprepossessing shack-town found their community overrun with rip-roaring cowboys, gamblers, gunmen, even women.

Draft additions December 2018

shackland n. chiefly South African an urban settlement of roughly constructed dwellings, typically erected rapidly and not officially designated a residential area.

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1960 V. Cone Africa iii. 33 Slums where thousands of people per square mile inhabit a shackland with indescribable smells, dust, and open drains may be right around the corner from important business houses.

1991 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 24 461 The Town Council was constituted, municipal boundaries were extended, shacklands were demolished, local laws were enacted, and large profits were made.

2016 Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 4 May Maimane went door-to-door in the squalid shackland, striding over pools of stagnant water and ducking under illegally connected electricity cables.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

shackn.⁴

Forms: Also (in combination) shag-.

Etymology: Of obscure origin. There is some affinity of meaning with shack n.¹ 1.

U.S.

1. Bait picked up at sea, refuse fish, flesh of porpoises or of sea-birds, etc., as distinguished from regular bait carried on the vessel. More fully shack-bait. Also attributive, shack-fisherman, shack-fishing.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > picked up at sea

shack1891

1891 in Cent. Dict. ; and in later Dicts.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 75 ‘I mistrust shag-fishin' will pay better, ez things go.’ That meant the boys would bait with selected offal of the cod as the fish were cleaned.

2. A catch of sea-fish, made up of cheap varieties, esp. of the cod species. Also attributive or adj.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fish to be caught or as catch > [noun] > catch of fish

draughta1387

waithing1488

hale1572

tack1596

take1626

catch1792

haul1854

taking1855

fare1884

strike1887

voyage1897

shack1904

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > unsound or inferior fish

thoke1482

rough fish1816

garbage fish1841

offal1859

shack1904

junk fish1930

1904 Rep. Mass. Comm. Fisheries & Game 78 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) Such fish, tumbled in together, without effort at classification, are known as shack.

1904 Rep. Mass. Comm. Fisheries & Game 78 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) At first a shack trip referred particularly to a voyage on which cheap species of fishes constituted the bulk of the catch.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

shackn.⁵

Brit.

/ʃak/, U.S.

/ʃæk/

Etymology: probably < shack n.² or shack v.²

U.S.

A slow trot. Also attributive.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > on foot > pace between walking and running

trotc1386

dogtrota1450

jog1611

jog-trot1796

turkey-trot1839

sling-trot1853

fadge1873

shack1881

shog1885

jundy1894

1881 Harper's Mag. Feb. 375/2 [He] walked with a peculiar shack gait.

1900 H. Garland Eagle's Heart 144 He continued his steady onward ‘shack’ toward the West.

1938 G. Butler Running & Runners iii. 85 Probably the best exercise of the whole lot is the ‘shack’ a word derived from the ponderous movement of a cart-horse. This is a movement mid-way between running and walking.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

shackn.⁶

Brit.

/ʃak/, U.S.

/ʃæk/

Forms: Also shacks.

Etymology: Origin obscure.

North American slang.

The brakeman or guard on a train.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > train-staff > brakesman or guard

brakesman1833

guard1842

rear guard1845

train guard1845

shack1899

provodnik1927

pinhead1931

1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps 397 Shack, a brakeman.

1907 J. London Road 213 As the freight got out of Philadelphia she began to hit up speed. Then I understood what the shack had meant by suicide.

1926 Amer. Speech 1 652/2 Shacks, brakeman on train.

1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route ii. 27 A great many hobo writers..are full ready to tell the novice how to outwit the brakemen, or shacks.

1947 L. M. Beebe Mixed Train Daily 313 The stock was valuable and a roundup was imperative, but, as the shacks and hoggers of the S.V. were unaccustomed to the saddle, a score of professional cowpokes were engaged for the task.

1976 J. K. Lieberman & N. S. Rhodes Compl. CB Handbk. vi. 136 Shack, railroad conductor.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† shackadj.¹

Etymology: ? Evolved < shack-haired adj.

Obsolete. rare.

Shaggy.

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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > hairiness > rough hair

ruggedc1330

shacky1565

shack1577

shacked1577

shaga1596

shaggy1796

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. vii. 9/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I White Bulles with shack [1587, p. 13/2 shackt] hears and curled manes like fierce Lions.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

shackadj.²

Etymology: < shack n.¹

dialect.

Used predicatively in phrase to lie shack, said of land so situated as to be liable to ‘shack’.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > produce grass [verb (intransitive)] > serve as pasture

graze1625

pasture1655

to lie shack1787

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

shackv.¹

Brit.

/ʃak/, U.S.

/ʃæk/

Etymology: < shack n.¹

dialect.

†1. intransitive. ? To ‘run at shack’ (in quot. 1674 transferred).

ΚΠ

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 196 Those rayes of other atoms that are shacking all over the worlds wasts.

2. transitive. To turn (pigs or poultry, etc.) into stubble-fields; also, of animals, to feed on (stubble). Also intransitive to feed upon stubble.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > types of pasturing

summer1601

to be (also go or run) at shack1706

range1816

shacka1825

ranch1851

summering place1968

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > types of pasturing > to feed on (stubble)

shacka1825

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [verb (intransitive)] > pasture pigs on stubble

to send hogs a shackling1790

shack1867

the world > animals > by eating habits > [verb (transitive)] > graze or crop

crop1362

pasture?c1470

shear1610

graze1667

shack1904

1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 284 Away they runne with their enjoyments,..like hogges in shaking time.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Shacking-time, the Season when Mast is ripe.]

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shack..To turn pigs or poultry into the stubble-fields, to feed on the scattered grain.

1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 533 They [turkeys] are then sold..to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles.

1887 E. R. Suffling Land of Broads 253 Shack, to turn cattle out to graze after the corn has been carted.

1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 347/1 The pigs shack the barley.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

shackv.²

Etymology: < shack n.², or of cognate formation. Compare shackle v.² (sense 2).

dialect.

a. intransitive. To idle away one's time; to loaf about.

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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf

luskc1330

lubber1530

to play the truant, -s1560

lazea1592

lazy1612

meecha1625

lounge1671

saunter1672

sloungea1682

slive1707

soss1711

lolpoop1722

muzz1758

shack1787

hulkc1793

creolize1802

maroon1808

shackle1809

sidle1828

slinge1834

sossle1837

loaf1838

mike1838

to sit around1844

hawm1847

wanton1847

sozzle1848

mooch1851

slosh1854

bum1857

flane1876

slummock1877

dead-beat1881

to lop about1881

scow1901

scowbank1901

stall1916

doss1937

plotz1941

lig1960

loon1969

1787 [see sense 2].

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shack..To rove about; as a stroller or mendicant.

1865 Good Words Feb. 125/2 What makes the work come so heavy at the end of the week, is, that the men are ‘shacking’ at the beginning.

1896 E. P. Oppenheim False Evid. xxvi What would you have me do? Shack about with my hands in my pocket all day?

b. To move with a slow ambling gait, to go at a slow trot. U.S.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > go at pace between walking and running

shiga1400

shog1530

jog1565

whig1689

fadge1694

dodge1802

shack1833

jog-trot1837

joggle1883

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride with an easy pace

amblec1405

pad-nag1748

shack1833

tripple1899

1833 Full Rep. Trial E. K. Avery (ed. 2) 61 I shacked down some of the hills, (partly run).

1916 H. Titus I Conquered ii. 31 Yonder [was] a man shacking along on a rough little horse, head down, listless.

1947 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 8 Mar. 53/1 Each winter Steve shacked in to Barry's camp a couple of times, sat in the log office a day and shacked out.

2. Western U.S. ‘To hibernate, as an animal, especially the bear: also said of men who “lay up” or “hole up” for the winter, or go into winter quarters’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

ΚΠ

1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 387 Shacking, a shabby rambling fellow (living at shack).

1891 C. Wordsworth Rutland Words Add. Shacking, idle good-for-nothing. He's a shacking chap.

Derivatives

ˈshacking adj. (in sense 1).

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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective] > idling or loafing

loiteringa1533

truanting1635

sauntering1672

dawdling1773

shackling1788

lounging1789

louting1836

lubbering1837

loafing1857

mitching1857

scowbanking1868

shacking1881

1881 Dr. Gheist 227 I'm tired enough of this shacking night-work.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

shackv.³

Etymology: Of obscure origin.

U.S.

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transitive. ‘To go after, as a ball batted to a distance’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891); ‘to chase and fetch, as a batted ball’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

shackv.⁴

Brit.

/ʃak/, U.S.

/ʃæk/

Etymology: < shack n.³; compare shack v.² 2.

slang (originally North American).

1. intransitive. To live in a shack.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in or as in other buildings

cabin1586

den1610

stable1651

hut1691

templea1711

bog-trota1734

sty1748

village1819

shanty1840

shack1895

flat1966

1895 Dial. Notes 1 393 Shack..(v.) to live in a shack or keep a bachelor's hall in general. ‘They sent away their wives and shacked for a time.’

1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vi. 127 You ain't de Everglades Cypress Lumber Comp'ny sho nuff. Youse just shacking in one of their shanties.

1954 C. Bruce Channel Shore 16 Men had sailed east from here to the Cape Breton coast, to shack on the beaches and fish the waters off Petit de Grat.

1975 Maclean's May 43/3 We used to shack there, camp ourselves where the mine was.

a. intransitive. Usually with up. To obtain temporary accommodation, to shelter for the night; to lodge with (esp. as a sexual partner), to set up house with, to cohabit (with); hence, to have sexual intercourse with.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > together

usec1384

hive1600

cohabit1601

cohabitate1624

co-inhabit1624

roof1636

to move in1850

to live in each other's pockets1934

shack1935

to live together1961

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)]

liec1000

harbourc1200

sojournc1290

layc1300

sojourc1330

to make, take (up) one's lodging1362

pilgrimagea1382

bield?a1400

lodgec1400

tarryc1400

to make (one's) residence1433

harbingec1475

harbry1513

stay1554

roost?1555

embower1591

quarter1591

leaguer1596

allodge1601

tenta1616

visit1626

billet1628

to lie abroad1650

tabernacle1653

sojourney1657

canton1697

stop1797

to shake down1858

to hole up1875

perendinate1886

shack1935

cotch1950

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with

mingeOE

haveOE

knowc1175

ofliec1275

to lie with (or by)a1300

knowledgec1300

meetc1330

beliea1350

yknowc1350

touchc1384

deala1387

dightc1386

usea1387

takec1390

commona1400

to meet witha1400

servea1400

occupy?a1475

engender1483

jangle1488

to be busy with1525

to come in1530

visitc1540

niggle1567

mow1568

to mix one's thigh with1593

do1594

grind1598

pepper1600

yark1600

tumble1603

to taste of1607

compressc1611

jumble1611

mix?1614

consort?1615

tastea1616

bumfiddle1630

ingressa1631

sheet1637

carnal1643

night-work1654

bump1669

bumble1680

frig?c1680

fuck1707

stick1707

screw1719

soil1722

to do over1730

shag1770

hump1785

subagitatec1830

diddle1879

to give (someone) onec1882

charver1889

fuckeec1890

plugc1890

dick1892

to make a baby1911

to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912

jazz1920

rock1922

yentz1924

roll1926

to make love1927

shtupa1934

to give (or get) a tumble1934

shack1935

bang1937

to have it off1937

rump1937

tom1949

to hop into bed (with)1951

ball1955

to make it1957

plank1958

score1960

naughty1961

pull1965

pleasurea1967

to have away1968

to have off1968

dork1970

shaft1970

bonk1975

knob1984

boink1985

fand-

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (intransitive)] > cohabit

to live together1483

adhere1525

cohabitc1530

to live in sin1838

to live (on) tally1864

shack1935

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse

playOE

to do (also work) one's kindc1225

bedc1315

couple1362

gendera1382

to go togetherc1390

to come togethera1398

meddlea1398

felterc1400

companya1425

swivec1440

japea1450

mellc1450

to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474

engender1483

fuck?a1513

conversec1540

jostlec1540

confederate1557

coeate1576

jumble1582

mate1589

do1594

conjoin1597

grind1598

consortc1600

pair1603

to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608

commix1610

cock1611

nibble1611

wap1611

bolstera1616

incorporate1622

truck1622

subagitate1623

occupya1626

minglec1630

copulate1632

fere1632

rut1637

joust1639

fanfreluche1653

carnalize1703

screw1725

pump1730

correspond1756

shag1770

hump1785

conjugate1790

diddle1879

to get some1889

fuckeec1890

jig-a-jig1896

perform1902

rabbit1919

jazz1920

sex1921

root1922

yentz1923

to make love1927

rock1931

mollock1932

to make (beautiful) music (together)1936

sleep1936

bang1937

lumber1938

to hop into bed (with)1951

to make out1951

ball1955

score1960

trick1965

to have it away1966

to roll in the hay1966

to get down1967

poontang1968

pork1968

shtup1969

shack1976

bonk1984

boink1985

1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vii. 161 Ah..was doin' fine till Ah shacked up with a woman dat had a great big ole black cat.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §62/9 Shack up, to stay in a camp for the night.

1945 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Mar. 6/6 More wanderlust grips the sow and she shacks up with half a dozen families before the original owner gets wind of her again.

1946 Time 14 Oct. 40/3 The medicine man..had shacked up with a halfbreed cook.

1947 L. Waller Show me Way iii. xxii. 191 She wanted me to shack with her tonight.

1949 R. Chandler Little Sister xviii. 120 I'm not talking about her love life... She doesn't have to shack up with a red-hot.

1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye ix. 73 I was going to shack up in a hotel for a couple of days and not go home till vacation started.

1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder iii. 22 Besides appearing at performances she has to shack up with Johnny.

1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm ix. 128 A man's got to have something to offer a girl before he asks her to shack up with him.

1968 Listener 15 Feb. 210/1 Some [trusted prisoners] even had their own cars to go up town and shack in some motel with a woman.

1972 P. Lively Driftway x. 136 We'll shack up for the night. There's a field farther on where the farmer's not one of those choosy fellows as'll turn me off after half an hour.

1976 W. Greatorex Crossover 193 Galina's not my wife... We shack up, that's all.

1981 A. Morice Men in her Death viii. 80 This must have been..before they become friendly enough to shack up together.

b. transitive. Usually with up. To provide with accommodation or lodging, esp. as a sexual partner. Chiefly in passive to be shacked (up), to be staying or lodging, to be cohabiting (with).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > provide with temporary accommodation

innOE

harbourc1150

gestena1300

guestc1330

hostelc1330

receivec1384

sojourn1390

harbry14..

shroudc1450

bestow1577

accommodate1592

board1600

quarter1603

stow1607

to put up1635

billet1637

lodge1741

room1840

to fix (a person) up1889

summer-board1889

shack1927

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (transitive)] > cohabit with > provide sexual partner with accommodation

shack1927

to case up1936

1927 Dial. Notes 5 462 Shack up, v., to put up for the night.

1946 Amer. Speech 21 252 ‘I'm shacked up around here’ means that the speaker has found a friendly fräulein who in substance maintains a home for him. The fräulein herself is a ‘shack job’.

1953 P. Frankau Winged Horse iv. 242 He's shacked up with Celia.

1957 Economist 30 Nov. 787/1 Private Girard's marriage to the Japanese girl with whom he had been ‘shacked up’.

1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff (1960) ii. 19 ‘Where is this Newton?’ ‘He's shacked in a hotel..downtown.’

1967 J. Porter Chinks in Curtain ix. 89 I haven't seen hide or hair of him. He's probably still shacked up with les girls.

1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 29 Sept. 1/2 Even the mayor was shacked up and everybody knew.

1975 D. Lodge Changing Places iii. 125 Philip Swallow is shacked up with Melanie at that address.

Derivatives

ˈshacking n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > together > outside marriage

cohabitation1548

domestic partnership1845

shacking1884

shack-up1935

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > cohabitation

cohabitation1548

bed-companya1555

free union1852

shacking1884

shack-up1935

1884 Prince Albert (Sask.) Times 13 June 3/2 Of all the enjoyments Prince Albert can number, there's none equals shacking on a pre-emption claim.

1945 Yank 8 June 14 Must be. I'm sure not crackin' up from shackin' up.

1980 ‘M. Underwood’ Clear Case of Suicide xiii. 96 Casual shacking up was quite different from holy matrimony.

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n.²1682

n.³1878

n.⁴1891

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adj.¹1577

adj.²1787

v.¹1674

v.²1787

v.³1889

v.⁴1884

单词	shack
释义	shackn.¹ Brit. /ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ Etymology: < shack, dialect variant of shake v. Compare shake n.¹ 2e. Now dialect. 1. Grain fallen from the ear, and available for the feeding of pigs, poultry, etc., after the harvest; a supply of fallen grain for this purpose. Also, fallen beech-mast or acorns. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by birds > poultry food gobbetc1384 shack1536 patoun1600 cram1614 chicken meat1684 soilinga1825 chicken feed1843 cram-cake1888 laying meal1908 laying mash1926 Tottenham Pudding1944 balancer meal1950 balancer mash1955 the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > pig fodder > other pig fodder defrutc1420 hog meata1500 shack1536 hog potato1776 pig potato1796 Tottenham Pudding1944 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > grain fallen from ear shack1536 1536 Rolls House MS. in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) III. 93 (note) Able and sufficient with the help of the shakke in the stubbe to succour and feed as many great beasts..as the land would keep. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Rogat. Week iv. 251 b The common balkes and walkes, whiche good men before tyme, made the greater and broder,..partlye for the better shacke in haruest tyme, to the more comfort of his poore neyghbours cattell. 1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 lxxiv. 322 [Produce of farm (Suffolk)] One hundred coomb of wheat..£75 0 0. Shack for cattle, £1 10 0. 1802 Sporting Mag. 20 64 Lonely watch'd he the grunters all day, As they rooted the stubbles for shack. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 337 Shack, the corn left in a barley or pea field, after the crop has been carried. Pigs and poultry are then turned in ‘to shack’. ‘Tha's good shack in that there filld’. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shack... The shaken grain remaining on the ground when harvest and gleaning are over; or, in woodland countries, the acorns, or mast under the trees. 1858 U.S. Newspaper in J. F. Morgan Eng. Norm. Occup. iii. 57 (note) The woods in the vicinity of Sandusky..were frequented by vast numbers of wild hogs, which..grew fat upon the shack which every where abounded. 2. a. In phrase to be (also go or run) at shack, to go to shack, said of pigs, poultry, etc., when turned into the stubble to feed on the ‘shack’ (sense 1) after the harvest. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > types of pasturing summer1601 to be (also go or run) at shack1706 range1816 shacka1825 ranch1851 summering place1968 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Shack, (in Norfolk and Suffolk)..to go at Shack in that County, signifies [of Hogs] as much as to go at large. 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 387 Shack, stock turned into the stubbles after harvest are said to be at shack. Grounds lying open to common fields are said to ‘lie quite shack’. b. The right of sending pigs or poultry to ‘run at shack’ on another's land after the harvest; also, in extended sense, the right of pasturing cattle in winter on another's land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights pannage1392 commonc1405 stint1437 agistmenta1450 intercommon1449 commonty1466 foggage1471 communitya1475 gist1493 commoning?a1509 arrentationc1540 wether gang1561 browsage1570 pasturage1572 feed1575 intercommoner1581 frankfold1609 broouage1610 fellow commoner1612 horsegate1619 frankfoldage1628 shack1629 tatha1641 retropannage1679 levancy and couchancya1691 commonance1701 stinter1701 horse-lease1721 stray1736 goose-gate1739 commonage1792 twinter1846 couchance1886 levance1886 sheep-stray1891 stintholder1894 1629 E. Coke Rep. vii. ii. 5 Ceux parolx, daler Shack, sont tant adire comme daler a libertie ou daler alarge. 1629 E. Coke Rep. vii. ii. 5 Le dit common appel Shacke. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 247 Shack is a peculiar name of Common, used in the Countrey of Norfolke. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Shack, (in Norfolk and Suffolk) the liberty of Winter-Pasturage;..Also a Custom in Norfolk to have Common for Hogs, from the end of Harvest till Seed-time in all Mens Grounds. 3. An animal or animals ‘at shack’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [noun] > herbivore > that feeds on stubble shack1842 1842 C. W. Johnson Farmer's Encycl. 1087/1 Shack,..the stock turned upon the stubble after harvest. 1859 All Year Round 10 Dec. 160 The pig is an admirable gleaner, ‘a shack’ they call him in Norfolk. Compounds General attributive. shack-land n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > harvest-field > stubble field arrishOE eddisha1728 stubble-rig?1780 stubble1792 shack-land1821 1821 Monthly Repos. Feb. 97/1 A great part..of our lands were formerly shack lands, of which the occupant had the use only whilst his crop was on, the land then reverting to the community for pasturage. shack-time n. (cf. shake-time at shake n.¹ 2e.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding-time shack-time1573 feeding-time1832 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > grazing time grass timec1405 shack-time1573 run1796 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19 Yoke neuer thy swine, while the shacktime doth last. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19^v Wher loue among neighbors, do beare any stroke, whiles shacktime endureth, men vse not to yoke. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shack-time, the time when pigs are at shack. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shackn.² Etymology: ? Short for shack-rag n. Compare shake n.² dialect and U.S. 1. An idle disreputable fellow, a vagabond. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun] ribalda1250 brethelingc1275 filec1300 waynouna1350 waster1352 lorel1362 losel1362 land-leaper1377 javelc1400 leftc1400 lorerc1400 shackerellc1420 brethel1440 never-thrift1440 ne'er-thrifta1450 never-thrivinga1450 nebulona1475 breelc1485 naughty pack?1534 brathel1542 unsel155. pelf1551 wandrel?1567 land-loper1570 scald1575 baggage1594 arrant1605 good-for-nothing1611 hilding1611 vauneant1621 idle-pack1624 thimble-maker1654 never-do-well1664 ne'er-be-good1675 shack1682 vagabond1686 shag-bag1699 houndsfoot1710 blackguard1732 ne'er-do-well1737 trumpery1738 rap1742 good-for-naught1773 rip1781 mauvais sujet1793 scamp1808 waffie1808 loose fish1809 ne'er-do-good1814 hard bargain1818 vaurien1829 sculpin1834 shicer1846 wastrel1847 scallywag1848 shack-bag1855 beat1865 rodney1877 git1939 no-hoper1944 piss artist1962 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person brethelingc1275 filec1300 dogc1330 ribald1340 waynouna1350 waster1352 lorel1362 losel1362 land-leaper1377 triflera1382 brothelc1390 javelc1400 leftc1400 lorerc1400 shackerellc1420 brethel1440 never-thrift1440 vagrant1444 ne'er-thrifta1450 never-thrivinga1450 nebulona1475 breelc1485 naughty pack?1534 brathel1542 carrion1547 slim1548 unsel155. pelf1551 shifterc1562 rag1566 wandrel?1567 land-loper1570 nothing-worth1580 baggage1594 roly-poly1602 bash-rag1603 arrant1605 ragabash?1609 flabergullion1611 hilding1611 hard bargain1612 slubberdegullion1612 vauneant1621 knick-knacker1622 idle-pack1624 slabberdegullion1653 thimble-maker1654 whiffler1659 never-do-well1664 good-for-nought1671 ne'er-be-good1675 shack1682 vagabond1686 shabaroon1699 shag-bag1699 houndsfoot1710 ne'er-do-well1737 trumpery1738 rap1742 hallion1789 scamp1808 waffie1808 ne'er-do-good1814 vaurien1829 sculpin1834 shicer1846 good-for-nothing1847 wastrel1847 scallywag1848 shack-bag1855 beat1865 toe-rag1875 rodney1877 toe-ragger1896 low-lifer1902 punk1904 lowlife1909 ringtail1916 git1939 no-hoper1944 schlub1950 piss artist1962 dead leg1964 1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Concl. 64 Such vile Shacks as will swear an hundred Oaths for Nothing, or a Whisker for Something. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §120 293 Great Ladies are more apt to take Sides with talking flattering Gossips than such a Shack as Fitzharris. c1800 Derbysh. Rhyme in W. Andrews Bk. Oddities (1882) 84 Ripley ruffians, Butterley blacks, Swanwick bull-dogs, Alfreton shacks. 1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales lxxviii A fellow..having much the appearance of a town shack. 1892 S. R. Hole Mem. xvi. 192 The shack is a man [in Notts] who objects to regular employment, but can and will do anything except ordinary work. Categories » 2. ‘A worthless horse; a plug’ (Webster 1911). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018). shackn.³ Etymology: Of obscure origin. The late J. Platt, Jun., suggested ( Notes & Queries Ser. x. XII. 306/2) that the source might be the Mexican jacal , Aztec xacalli , wooden hut. Compare shackle n.³ 1. A roughly built cabin or shanty of logs, mud, etc. Also applied to other similar structures. ΘΚΠ 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 1878 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 42 Too much praise cannot be given to these homesteaders for..the erection of this building, while they, themselves, were living in shacks. 1881 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. in Notes & Queries 6th Ser. V. 65/2 The average ‘shack’ comprises but one room, and is customarily roofed with earth, supported by poles. 1882 Cent. Mag. Sept. 774/1 He [a stockman in the north-west] lives, as a rule, in a wretched dirt-roof ‘shack’. 1932 A. Christie Peril at End House v. 70 We saw a lot of messy-looking shacks, and then by good luck we found this. 1936 D. Glover Home Thoughts 18 A mountain shack Where blankets, candles, frying-pan Bespeak the only needs of man. 1939 Denver Post 2 Jan. 16 b/6 Other work will include the building of a ski shack. 1950 J. Baxter in Landfall (N.Z.) XIII. 10 There in a corrugated iron shack Behind a brushwood fence, he lives alone. 1960 Daily Mail 11 Apr. 4/4 In Durban..Bren guns and heavy machine-guns covered the hillsides spotted with native shacks. 2. U.S. slang. A house. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun] houseeOE homeOE houseOE roofa1382 housinga1400 bike1508 dwelling-house1530 firehouse1530 standing house?1532 mansion house1533 maisonc1540 beinga1616 smoke-housea1687 drum1846 khazi1846 casa1859 shack1910 kipsie1916 machine for living (in)1927 1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy xiii. 128 You stay in that shack. Don't leave it for a second, understand? 1930 Living Age 1 Apr. 188 I've gotta tote this outfit of waffles and candy to grandmomma's shack. 3. U.S. slang. = radio shack n. at radio n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > room or office wireless shack1911 radio shack1917 shack1929 1929 Amer. Speech 5 49 Shack, wireless room or office. 1947 Christian Sci. Monitor 15 Jan. 9/1 Al's [ham radio] station, like most of the other 75,000 American amateurs, is a bedroom converted into what they call a ‘shack’. 1960 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 29 Sept. 39/3 Hams have their own slang terms. ‘Rig’ is what they call their sending and receiving equipment and ‘shack’ is the name of the room or structure housing their sets. Compounds attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [adjective] > type of log cabin1770 beehive-shaped1858 shack1885 Quonset1945 1885 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Mar. 426 The rude shack~like store has changed to an imposing structure of stone. 1909 N.Y. Evening Post 4 Feb. in Thornton Amer. Gloss. (at cited word) An Italian was murdered in his bunk by his shack-mate. 1923 H. Steele Spirit-of-Iron 105 Where little shack-towns rose, it knew there should be cities. 1962 G. MacEwan Blazing Old Cattle Trail i. 4 The residents of what had been an unprepossessing shack-town found their community overrun with rip-roaring cowboys, gamblers, gunmen, even women. Draft additions December 2018 shackland n. chiefly South African an urban settlement of roughly constructed dwellings, typically erected rapidly and not officially designated a residential area. ΚΠ 1960 V. Cone Africa iii. 33 Slums where thousands of people per square mile inhabit a shackland with indescribable smells, dust, and open drains may be right around the corner from important business houses. 1991 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 24 461 The Town Council was constituted, municipal boundaries were extended, shacklands were demolished, local laws were enacted, and large profits were made. 2016 Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 4 May Maimane went door-to-door in the squalid shackland, striding over pools of stagnant water and ducking under illegally connected electricity cables. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). shackn.⁴ Forms: Also (in combination) shag-. Etymology: Of obscure origin. There is some affinity of meaning with shack n.¹ 1. U.S. 1. Bait picked up at sea, refuse fish, flesh of porpoises or of sea-birds, etc., as distinguished from regular bait carried on the vessel. More fully shack-bait. Also attributive, shack-fisherman, shack-fishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > picked up at sea shack1891 1891 in Cent. Dict. ; and in later Dicts. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 75 ‘I mistrust shag-fishin' will pay better, ez things go.’ That meant the boys would bait with selected offal of the cod as the fish were cleaned. 2. A catch of sea-fish, made up of cheap varieties, esp. of the cod species. Also attributive or adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fish to be caught or as catch > [noun] > catch of fish draughta1387 waithing1488 hale1572 tack1596 take1626 catch1792 haul1854 taking1855 fare1884 strike1887 voyage1897 shack1904 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > unsound or inferior fish thoke1482 rough fish1816 garbage fish1841 offal1859 shack1904 junk fish1930 1904 Rep. Mass. Comm. Fisheries & Game 78 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) Such fish, tumbled in together, without effort at classification, are known as shack. 1904 Rep. Mass. Comm. Fisheries & Game 78 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) At first a shack trip referred particularly to a voyage on which cheap species of fishes constituted the bulk of the catch. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). shackn.⁵ Brit. /ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ Etymology: probably < shack n.² or shack v.² U.S. A slow trot. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > on foot > pace between walking and running trotc1386 dogtrota1450 jog1611 jog-trot1796 turkey-trot1839 sling-trot1853 fadge1873 shack1881 shog1885 jundy1894 1881 Harper's Mag. Feb. 375/2 [He] walked with a peculiar shack gait. 1900 H. Garland Eagle's Heart 144 He continued his steady onward ‘shack’ toward the West. 1938 G. Butler Running & Runners iii. 85 Probably the best exercise of the whole lot is the ‘shack’ a word derived from the ponderous movement of a cart-horse. This is a movement mid-way between running and walking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shackn.⁶ Brit. /ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ Forms: Also shacks. Etymology: Origin obscure. North American slang. The brakeman or guard on a train. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > train-staff > brakesman or guard brakesman1833 guard1842 rear guard1845 train guard1845 shack1899 provodnik1927 pinhead1931 1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps 397 Shack, a brakeman. 1907 J. London Road 213 As the freight got out of Philadelphia she began to hit up speed. Then I understood what the shack had meant by suicide. 1926 Amer. Speech 1 652/2 Shacks, brakeman on train. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route ii. 27 A great many hobo writers..are full ready to tell the novice how to outwit the brakemen, or shacks. 1947 L. M. Beebe Mixed Train Daily 313 The stock was valuable and a roundup was imperative, but, as the shacks and hoggers of the S.V. were unaccustomed to the saddle, a score of professional cowpokes were engaged for the task. 1976 J. K. Lieberman & N. S. Rhodes Compl. CB Handbk. vi. 136 Shack, railroad conductor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † shackadj.¹ Etymology: ? Evolved < shack-haired adj. Obsolete. rare. Shaggy. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > hairiness > rough hair ruggedc1330 shacky1565 shack1577 shacked1577 shaga1596 shaggy1796 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. vii. 9/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I White Bulles with shack [1587, p. 13/2 shackt] hears and curled manes like fierce Lions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021). shackadj.² Etymology: < shack n.¹ dialect. Used predicatively in phrase to lie shack, said of land so situated as to be liable to ‘shack’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > produce grass [verb (intransitive)] > serve as pasture graze1625 pasture1655 to lie shack1787 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 387 Shack, stock turned into the stubbles after harvest are said to be at shack. Grounds lying open to common fields are said to ‘lie quite shack’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2018). shackv.¹ Brit. /ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ Etymology: < shack n.¹ dialect. †1. intransitive. ? To ‘run at shack’ (in quot. 1674 transferred). ΚΠ 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 196 Those rayes of other atoms that are shacking all over the worlds wasts. 2. transitive. To turn (pigs or poultry, etc.) into stubble-fields; also, of animals, to feed on (stubble). Also intransitive to feed upon stubble. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > types of pasturing summer1601 to be (also go or run) at shack1706 range1816 shacka1825 ranch1851 summering place1968 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > types of pasturing > to feed on (stubble) shacka1825 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [verb (intransitive)] > pasture pigs on stubble to send hogs a shackling1790 shack1867 the world > animals > by eating habits > [verb (transitive)] > graze or crop crop1362 pasture?c1470 shear1610 graze1667 shack1904 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 284 Away they runne with their enjoyments,..like hogges in shaking time. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Shacking-time, the Season when Mast is ripe.] a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shack..To turn pigs or poultry into the stubble-fields, to feed on the scattered grain. 1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 533 They [turkeys] are then sold..to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles. 1887 E. R. Suffling Land of Broads 253 Shack, to turn cattle out to graze after the corn has been carted. 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 347/1 The pigs shack the barley. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shackv.² Etymology: < shack n.², or of cognate formation. Compare shackle v.² (sense 2). dialect. 1. a. intransitive. To idle away one's time; to loaf about. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf luskc1330 lubber1530 to play the truant, -s1560 lazea1592 lazy1612 meecha1625 lounge1671 saunter1672 sloungea1682 slive1707 soss1711 lolpoop1722 muzz1758 shack1787 hulkc1793 creolize1802 maroon1808 shackle1809 sidle1828 slinge1834 sossle1837 loaf1838 mike1838 to sit around1844 hawm1847 wanton1847 sozzle1848 mooch1851 slosh1854 bum1857 flane1876 slummock1877 dead-beat1881 to lop about1881 scow1901 scowbank1901 stall1916 doss1937 plotz1941 lig1960 loon1969 1787 [see sense 2]. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shack..To rove about; as a stroller or mendicant. 1865 Good Words Feb. 125/2 What makes the work come so heavy at the end of the week, is, that the men are ‘shacking’ at the beginning. 1896 E. P. Oppenheim False Evid. xxvi What would you have me do? Shack about with my hands in my pocket all day? b. To move with a slow ambling gait, to go at a slow trot. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > go at pace between walking and running shiga1400 shog1530 jog1565 whig1689 fadge1694 dodge1802 shack1833 jog-trot1837 joggle1883 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride with an easy pace amblec1405 pad-nag1748 shack1833 tripple1899 1833 Full Rep. Trial E. K. Avery (ed. 2) 61 I shacked down some of the hills, (partly run). 1916 H. Titus I Conquered ii. 31 Yonder [was] a man shacking along on a rough little horse, head down, listless. 1947 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 8 Mar. 53/1 Each winter Steve shacked in to Barry's camp a couple of times, sat in the log office a day and shacked out. 2. Western U.S. ‘To hibernate, as an animal, especially the bear: also said of men who “lay up” or “hole up” for the winter, or go into winter quarters’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891). ΚΠ 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 387 Shacking, a shabby rambling fellow (living at shack). 1891 C. Wordsworth Rutland Words Add. Shacking, idle good-for-nothing. He's a shacking chap. Derivatives ˈshacking adj. (in sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective] > idling or loafing loiteringa1533 truanting1635 sauntering1672 dawdling1773 shackling1788 lounging1789 louting1836 lubbering1837 loafing1857 mitching1857 scowbanking1868 shacking1881 1881 Dr. Gheist 227 I'm tired enough of this shacking night-work. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019). shackv.³ Etymology: Of obscure origin. U.S. Categories » transitive. ‘To go after, as a ball batted to a distance’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891); ‘to chase and fetch, as a batted ball’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018). shackv.⁴ Brit. /ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ Etymology: < shack n.³; compare shack v.² 2. slang (originally North American). 1. intransitive. To live in a shack. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in or as in other buildings cabin1586 den1610 stable1651 hut1691 templea1711 bog-trota1734 sty1748 village1819 shanty1840 shack1895 flat1966 1895 Dial. Notes 1 393 Shack..(v.) to live in a shack or keep a bachelor's hall in general. ‘They sent away their wives and shacked for a time.’ 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vi. 127 You ain't de Everglades Cypress Lumber Comp'ny sho nuff. Youse just shacking in one of their shanties. 1954 C. Bruce Channel Shore 16 Men had sailed east from here to the Cape Breton coast, to shack on the beaches and fish the waters off Petit de Grat. 1975 Maclean's May 43/3 We used to shack there, camp ourselves where the mine was. 2. a. intransitive. Usually with up. To obtain temporary accommodation, to shelter for the night; to lodge with (esp. as a sexual partner), to set up house with, to cohabit (with); hence, to have sexual intercourse with. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > together usec1384 hive1600 cohabit1601 cohabitate1624 co-inhabit1624 roof1636 to move in1850 to live in each other's pockets1934 shack1935 to live together1961 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] liec1000 harbourc1200 sojournc1290 layc1300 sojourc1330 to make, take (up) one's lodging1362 pilgrimagea1382 bield?a1400 lodgec1400 tarryc1400 to make (one's) residence1433 harbingec1475 harbry1513 stay1554 roost?1555 embower1591 quarter1591 leaguer1596 allodge1601 tenta1616 visit1626 billet1628 to lie abroad1650 tabernacle1653 sojourney1657 canton1697 stop1797 to shake down1858 to hole up1875 perendinate1886 shack1935 cotch1950 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with mingeOE haveOE knowc1175 ofliec1275 to lie with (or by)a1300 knowledgec1300 meetc1330 beliea1350 yknowc1350 touchc1384 deala1387 dightc1386 usea1387 takec1390 commona1400 to meet witha1400 servea1400 occupy?a1475 engender1483 jangle1488 to be busy with1525 to come in1530 visitc1540 niggle1567 mow1568 to mix one's thigh with1593 do1594 grind1598 pepper1600 yark1600 tumble1603 to taste of1607 compressc1611 jumble1611 mix?1614 consort?1615 tastea1616 bumfiddle1630 ingressa1631 sheet1637 carnal1643 night-work1654 bump1669 bumble1680 frig?c1680 fuck1707 stick1707 screw1719 soil1722 to do over1730 shag1770 hump1785 subagitatec1830 diddle1879 to give (someone) onec1882 charver1889 fuckeec1890 plugc1890 dick1892 to make a baby1911 to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912 jazz1920 rock1922 yentz1924 roll1926 to make love1927 shtupa1934 to give (or get) a tumble1934 shack1935 bang1937 to have it off1937 rump1937 tom1949 to hop into bed (with)1951 ball1955 to make it1957 plank1958 score1960 naughty1961 pull1965 pleasurea1967 to have away1968 to have off1968 dork1970 shaft1970 bonk1975 knob1984 boink1985 fand- society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (intransitive)] > cohabit to live together1483 adhere1525 cohabitc1530 to live in sin1838 to live (on) tally1864 shack1935 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vii. 161 Ah..was doin' fine till Ah shacked up with a woman dat had a great big ole black cat. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §62/9 Shack up, to stay in a camp for the night. 1945 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Mar. 6/6 More wanderlust grips the sow and she shacks up with half a dozen families before the original owner gets wind of her again. 1946 Time 14 Oct. 40/3 The medicine man..had shacked up with a halfbreed cook. 1947 L. Waller Show me Way iii. xxii. 191 She wanted me to shack with her tonight. 1949 R. Chandler Little Sister xviii. 120 I'm not talking about her love life... She doesn't have to shack up with a red-hot. 1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye ix. 73 I was going to shack up in a hotel for a couple of days and not go home till vacation started. 1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder iii. 22 Besides appearing at performances she has to shack up with Johnny. 1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm ix. 128 A man's got to have something to offer a girl before he asks her to shack up with him. 1968 Listener 15 Feb. 210/1 Some [trusted prisoners] even had their own cars to go up town and shack in some motel with a woman. 1972 P. Lively Driftway x. 136 We'll shack up for the night. There's a field farther on where the farmer's not one of those choosy fellows as'll turn me off after half an hour. 1976 W. Greatorex Crossover 193 Galina's not my wife... We shack up, that's all. 1981 A. Morice Men in her Death viii. 80 This must have been..before they become friendly enough to shack up together. b. transitive. Usually with up. To provide with accommodation or lodging, esp. as a sexual partner. Chiefly in passive to be shacked (up), to be staying or lodging, to be cohabiting (with). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > provide with temporary accommodation innOE harbourc1150 gestena1300 guestc1330 hostelc1330 receivec1384 sojourn1390 harbry14.. shroudc1450 bestow1577 accommodate1592 board1600 quarter1603 stow1607 to put up1635 billet1637 lodge1741 room1840 to fix (a person) up1889 summer-board1889 shack1927 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (transitive)] > cohabit with > provide sexual partner with accommodation shack1927 to case up1936 1927 Dial. Notes 5 462 Shack up, v., to put up for the night. 1946 Amer. Speech 21 252 ‘I'm shacked up around here’ means that the speaker has found a friendly fräulein who in substance maintains a home for him. The fräulein herself is a ‘shack job’. 1953 P. Frankau Winged Horse iv. 242 He's shacked up with Celia. 1957 Economist 30 Nov. 787/1 Private Girard's marriage to the Japanese girl with whom he had been ‘shacked up’. 1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff (1960) ii. 19 ‘Where is this Newton?’ ‘He's shacked in a hotel..downtown.’ 1967 J. Porter Chinks in Curtain ix. 89 I haven't seen hide or hair of him. He's probably still shacked up with les girls. 1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 29 Sept. 1/2 Even the mayor was shacked up and everybody knew. 1975 D. Lodge Changing Places iii. 125 Philip Swallow is shacked up with Melanie at that address. Derivatives ˈshacking n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > together > outside marriage cohabitation1548 domestic partnership1845 shacking1884 shack-up1935 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > cohabitation cohabitation1548 bed-companya1555 free union1852 shacking1884 shack-up1935 1884 Prince Albert (Sask.) Times 13 June 3/2 Of all the enjoyments Prince Albert can number, there's none equals shacking on a pre-emption claim. 1945 Yank 8 June 14 Must be. I'm sure not crackin' up from shackin' up. 1980 ‘M. Underwood’ Clear Case of Suicide xiii. 96 Casual shacking up was quite different from holy matrimony. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1536n.²1682n.³1878n.⁴1891n.⁵1881n.⁶1899adj.¹1577adj.²1787v.¹1674v.²1787v.³1889v.⁴1884
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