shackn.1
/ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ 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.
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.
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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. 19v 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.
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shackn.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).
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shackn.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.
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shackn.4
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.
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shackn.5
/ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ 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.
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shackn.6
/ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ 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.
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† shackadj.1
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.
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shackadj.2
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
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’.
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shackv.1
/ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ dialect.† 1. intransitive. ? To ‘run at shack’ (in quot. 1674 transferred).
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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.
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shackv.2
dialect.
1.
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).
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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.
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shackv.3
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
/ʃak/, U.S. /ʃæk/ 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.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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