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a building's humblest dream, four walls agreeing to keep most of the rain out
means A small, roughly built hut or cabin, typically flimsy and barely furnished.
from American English of the late 19th century, origin debated. One popular suggestion ties it to Mexican Spanish 'jacal' (from Nahuatl 'xacalli,' an adobe hut), the sound worn down into 'shack.' Others link it to the dialectal English verb 'shackly,' meaning rickety or shaky — which fits a building that wobbles. The honest answer is that nobody is certain, though both stories suit a structure held up mostly by optimism.
- word origin
- likely from Aztec xacalli, meaning grass hut
- radio fame
- ham operators call their gear room the shack
- love nest
- shacking up entered slang in the 1930s
- Caribbean cuisine
- beach shacks invented some of the world's best food
the shack movie — 2017 film based on william p. young's novel about a man's encounter with god in an old shack in oregon
shackleton's hut — ernest shackleton's base camp on ross island, antarctica, built in 1908 and preserved as a historical site