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Definition of ramshackle in English: ramshackleadjective ˈramʃak(ə)lˈræmˌʃæk(ə)l (especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair. Example sentencesExamples - It is at his ramshackle house that the game takes place, with Nora filling the men's glasses from time to time.
- The soldier entered the ramshackle beach house, which lay apart from the main camp of tents.
- Most of the houses in the settlement still had ramshackle wooden or corrugated iron structures in their backyards.
- I was living in a ramshackle house that had been given an unenthusiastic upgrade.
- Here I was in this tiny ramshackle village, St Paul's, the complete antithesis of the metropolis.
- The action of the play takes place in a remote ramshackle beach house built on sand dunes.
- Wide expanses of countryside are uninhabited save for the occasional ramshackle farmhouse.
- Lewis Blayse lives alone in a ramshackle house in the country.
- Beyond the fence is an apparently ramshackle dwelling with a sagging roof and peeling white pigment on the sides.
- The Main was little more than a ramshackle row of sausage-sandwich delis with butchered animals in the window.
- The Blunt family home was a large, ramshackle house with an untended and brambly garden.
- I reached his ramshackle lean-to, promptly leaned against my usual beam and opened the folded papers.
- They are renting a remote, ramshackle house near the coast for the summer.
- A makeshift wooden bridge is the only access to the ramshackle dwelling leading from the road.
- Then a bit of back road took us past ramshackle sheds and the gilded gates of Cawton Cottage, which is huge and not a cottage.
- Deep gullies run between the ramshackle dirt houses carrying away sewage in the open.
- Just upstream, behind a clump of trees rose a ramshackle spire; standing in dignified disrepair.
- Instead of fleeing he walked right into the house next door and calmly walked into a ramshackle apartment he had hired there.
- Off to one side was a gray, derelict, ramshackle house that looked ready to fall down.
- When I was a small child, we lived in a ramshackle house with an old pressed tin roof.
Synonyms tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit, neglected, gone to rack and ruin, run down, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, rickety, shaky, unsteady, broken down, unsound, unsafe informal shambly, geriatric North American informal shacky Australian/New Zealand informal rumpty
Origin Early 19th century (originally dialect in the sense 'irregular, disorderly'): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled 'ransacked'. A shaky building or a car with its bumper tied on with string might be called ramshackle, but it has nothing to do with rams or shackles. The word was originally a dialect term meaning ‘irregular, disorderly’, and is related to ransack.
Definition of ramshackle in US English: ramshackleadjectiveˈramˌSHak(ə)lˈræmˌʃæk(ə)l (especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair. Example sentencesExamples - I was living in a ramshackle house that had been given an unenthusiastic upgrade.
- Then a bit of back road took us past ramshackle sheds and the gilded gates of Cawton Cottage, which is huge and not a cottage.
- I reached his ramshackle lean-to, promptly leaned against my usual beam and opened the folded papers.
- Instead of fleeing he walked right into the house next door and calmly walked into a ramshackle apartment he had hired there.
- The Blunt family home was a large, ramshackle house with an untended and brambly garden.
- When I was a small child, we lived in a ramshackle house with an old pressed tin roof.
- Lewis Blayse lives alone in a ramshackle house in the country.
- Deep gullies run between the ramshackle dirt houses carrying away sewage in the open.
- Off to one side was a gray, derelict, ramshackle house that looked ready to fall down.
- Beyond the fence is an apparently ramshackle dwelling with a sagging roof and peeling white pigment on the sides.
- Here I was in this tiny ramshackle village, St Paul's, the complete antithesis of the metropolis.
- The soldier entered the ramshackle beach house, which lay apart from the main camp of tents.
- A makeshift wooden bridge is the only access to the ramshackle dwelling leading from the road.
- Just upstream, behind a clump of trees rose a ramshackle spire; standing in dignified disrepair.
- The action of the play takes place in a remote ramshackle beach house built on sand dunes.
- Wide expanses of countryside are uninhabited save for the occasional ramshackle farmhouse.
- The Main was little more than a ramshackle row of sausage-sandwich delis with butchered animals in the window.
- They are renting a remote, ramshackle house near the coast for the summer.
- Most of the houses in the settlement still had ramshackle wooden or corrugated iron structures in their backyards.
- It is at his ramshackle house that the game takes place, with Nora filling the men's glasses from time to time.
Synonyms tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit, neglected, gone to rack and ruin, run down, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, rickety, shaky, unsteady, broken down, unsound, unsafe
Origin Early 19th century (originally dialect in the sense ‘irregular, disorderly’): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled ‘ransacked’. |