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ˈramshackly, a.
[f. ramshackle + -y, after rickety, shaky, etc.]
1. = ramshackle a. 1.
1857Reade Course True Love, Clouds & Sunshine ix. 266 Immeasurably fond of the old ramshackly house. 1892J. Payn Mod. Whittington I. 166 Lawrence was ashamed of..the ramshackly dwelling. 1897E. A. Bartlett Battlefields of Thessaly xii. 262 There was also the araba with our baggage, a very ramshackly weather-beaten old carriage. 1924E. M. Forster Passage to India xxiv. 217 The chuprassies..filed into the ramshackly room with a condescending air, as if it was a booth at a fair. 1939in B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore (1949) i. iii. 59 The cabin was ramshackly.
2. = ramshackle a. 2.
1910E. M. Forster Howards End v. 38 Helen, you must not be so ramshackly. You took this gentleman's umbrella away from Queen's Hall, and he has had the trouble of coming round for it. 1927― Aspects of Novel i. 28 In the rather ramshackly course that lies ahead of us, we cannot consider fiction by periods. 1976Daily Tel. 8 July 16 The accelerating shift to the Left which has rendered that great ramshackly confederation [sc. the Labour party] increasingly vulnerable to the subversive activities of Marxists. |