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1. Of a person, action, etc.: unsteady, irregular, disorderly. 2. Esp. of a building or vehicle: loose and shaky, as if ready…. Noun. 1. A ramshackle building, vehicle, etc. 2. Scottish and English regional (Lincolnshire).
The earliest known use of the adjective ramshackled is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for ramshackled is from 1675, in a diary entry by Samuel Sewall, judge and diarist in America. ramshackled is perhaps formed within English, by derivation.
Feb 18, 2010 · For 100 years before that it had been ramshackled. Etymology dictionaries of the time speculated that it was built on a Scottish prefix ram which was an intensifier, and shauchle, another possibly Scottish word that had first meant to “shuffle your feet” but then later meant to “wear out” your shoes by shuffling your feet.
Factsheet. What does the verb ramshackle mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb ramshackle. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the verb ramshackle? About 0.02 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency.
Apr 14, 2021 · ramshackle (adj.) "loosely joined, ill-made or out of good condition; chaotic or likely to collapse," 1809, an alternative form of ramshackled, earlier ranshackled (1670s), an alteration of ransackled, past participle of ransackle (from the same source as ransack). "Said chiefly of carriages and houses" [OED].
Apr 6, 2024 · RAMSHACKLE: The Animated Pilot is the artist and animator Zeddyzi's first episode of Ramshackle - a cartoon adaptation of the webtoon "Ramshackle". Vinnie, Stone and Skipp come across a baby and enter them into the "Next Top Sweetheart" pageant for money. Despite winning the pageant, the baby...
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