ramshackle house

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• house — n. building home 1) to build, put up a house 2) to redecorate, refurbish, remodel, renovate a house 3) to demolish, raze, tear down a house 4) to rent a house from smb. 5) to let (BE), rent out (AE) a house to smb. 6) a dilapidated, ramshackle… …   Combinatory dictionary

• ramshackle — ramshackleness, n. /ram shak euhl/, adj. loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky: a ramshackle house. [1815 25; cf. earlier rans(h)ackled, obscurely akin to RANSACK] Syn. tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, flimsy. * * * …   Universalium

• ramshackle — ram•shack•le [[t]ˈræmˌʃæk əl[/t]] adj. loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky: a ramshackle house[/ex] • Etymology: 1815–25 …   From formal English to slang

• ramshackle — /ˈræmʃækəl / (say ramshakuhl) adjective loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky: a ramshackle house. {earlier ramshackled, from ransackle ransack} …  

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• ramshackle — adj. Ramshackle is used with these nouns: ↑building, ↑house, ↑hut, ↑tenement …   Collocations dictionary

• ramshackle — Rickety, unsteady, flimsy, in danger of imminent collapse I m sorry, but my nerves won t allow that ramshackle table to stay in this house another minute …   Dictionary of american slang

• ramshackle — Rickety, unsteady, flimsy, in danger of imminent collapse I m sorry, but my nerves won t allow that ramshackle table to stay in this house another minute …   Dictionary of american slang

• ramshackle — adj. (usu. of a house or vehicle) tumbledown, rickety. Etymology: earlier ramshackled past part. of obs. ransackle RANSACK …   Useful english dictionary

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