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1 jacal
(Sp. model spelled same [xakál] < Nahuatl xacalli 'hut; cabin; house made of straw'; either from xacámitl 'adobe' and calli 'house' or from xalli 'sand')Texas: 1838. A primitive hut or shelter, especially one owned by a Mexican or Indian. The OED describes it as a hut built of poles or stakes plastered over with mud. It also indicates that such huts are common in Mexico and the Southwest. The DARE notes that the term may also refer to the method or material used to construct such a hut. It is referenced in the DRAE as a term used in Mexico for a hut or hovel. Santamaría adds that it commonly refers to a hut made of adobe, with roof made of straw or thin strips of wood.Alternate forms: hackel, jacel, jackall, jeccal.
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jacal — ► sustantivo masculino México, Venezuela Choza o casa humilde. * * * jacal (del nahua «xacalli», casa de adobes; Hispam.) m. *Choza o casa miserable. * * * jacal. (Del nahua xacalli). m. Hond. y Méx. Especie de choza … Enciclopedia Universal
Jacal — Ja*cal (h[aum]*k[aum]l ; 239), n. [Amer. Sp., fr. Mex. xacalli.] In Mexico and the southwestern United States, a kind of plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Shack — A shack is a type of small house that is in disrepair. The word may derive from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word xacalli or adobe house by way of Mexican Spanish xacal / jacal , which has the same meaning as shack… … Wikipedia
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shack — shack1 [ʃæk] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from shackly likely to fall down (19 20 centuries), or from Mexican Spanish jacal small building , from Nahuatl xacalli] a small building that has not been built very well ▪ a tin shack shack 2… … Dictionary of contemporary English
shack — (n.) 1878, American English and Canadian English, of unknown origin, perhaps from Mex.Sp. jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli wooden hut. Or perhaps a back formation from dialectal English shackly shaky, rickety (1843), a derivative of shack, a dialectal … Etymology dictionary
jacal — (Del nahua xacalli). m. Hond. y Méx. Especie de choza … Diccionario de la lengua española
jacal — ☆ jacal [hä käl′ ] n. pl. jacales [häkä′lās] or jacals [AmSp < Nahuatl xacalli, contr. < xamitl calli, adobe house] a hut in Mexico and the Southwest, with walls of close set wooden stakes plastered with mud and roofed with straw, rushes,… … English World dictionary
shack — ☆ shack [shak ] n. [< ? AmSp jacal < Nahuatl xacalli, wooden hut] a small house or cabin that is crudely built and furnished; shanty shack up 1. Slang to live or room ( in a certain place) 2. to live (with one s mistress or paramour) … English World dictionary
