shack

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a roughly built hut or cabin

   They sheltered in a tin-roofed shack by the river.

Simplified etymology

Shack arose in the United States in the late 19th century. It may come from Mexican jacal and ultimately from Nahuatl xacatli, meaning “wooden hut,” but this origin is uncertain.

Of uncertain origin, first attested in 19th-century American English; possibly a back-formation from ramshackle, or from Mexican Spanish jacal ('hut'), from Nahuatl xacalli ('adobe hut').

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