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adj
Alternative form of shag (“exhausted; tiring”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore, Singlish, alt-of, alternative, slang
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: hovel, shanty, camp
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noun
Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
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noun
The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, US, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Bait that can be picked up at sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Nigeria, countable, slang, uncountable
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verb
To live (in or with); to shack up.
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verb
To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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verb
To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, intransitive
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verb
To drink, especially alcohol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Nigeria, slang
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noun
small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shanty
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Broader terms: shelter
Narrower terms: igloo, iglu, mudhif
verb
move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: trail
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Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
verb
make one's home in a particular place or community
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: reside, domicile, domiciliate
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Broader terms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit
Narrower terms: rusticate
History
From shagged or shagged out.
Unknown. Some scholars derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”). Alternatively, the word may instead come from ramshackle/ramshackly (e.g., old ramshackly house) or perhaps it may be a back-formation from shackly. Compare Tavringer Romani hak (“place, house”), Traveller Norwegian hak (“place”).
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).
Across languages
163 source translations are retained for this English entry.
