shacklyadj.

/ˈʃakli/

Forms: Also shackley.

Etymology: < shackle v.² + -y suffix¹.

U.S. and dialect.

Shaky, rickety; ramshackle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety

seely1562

crazy1583

ramshackled1675

creachy1715

rickly1715

rickety1741

palsified1775

shackling1790

ramshackling1815

paralytic1824

rackety1824

rattletrap1824

cocklety1828

ramshackle1830

shickery?1833

shackly1843

shattery1844

shaky1850

ramshackly1857

cockly1859

rachitic1864

ruckly1866

tumble-over1883

palsied1889

rattle-bag1896

shauchly1896

bockety1902

ruggy1929

rickety-rackety1931

ropy1942

1843 Indiana Q. Mag. Hist. III. 121 I stopped at a small poverty-stricken little town called Mt Meridian; shackly houses, huts and hovels..gave no great expectation of refinements.

1843 New Mirror 18 Nov. 116/2 Hitched with oakum before a shackley go-cart, the rocking evolution of whose wheels showed that it was long since they had firmly revolved in their own proper axis.

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) What a shackly old carriage!

c1850 J. Dow Serm. III. (Bartlett 1860) The general fly-offs and moral unhitches incident to poor shackly mortality.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxi. 180 All kinds of old shackly wagons.

1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc. (new ed.) I. Pref. p. xvii The poverty of the old printing-house... Its scant supply of types, its shackly hand-presses [etc.].

1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 426 The needless wearing of elastic or shackly-fitted parts of the press.

1897 ‘M. Twain’ More Tramps Abroad lxxi A gaunt, shackly country lout six feet high.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	shackly
释义	shacklyadj. /ˈʃakli/ Forms: Also shackley. Etymology: < shackle v.² + -y suffix¹. U.S. and dialect. Shaky, rickety; ramshackle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety seely1562 crazy1583 ramshackled1675 creachy1715 rickly1715 rickety1741 palsified1775 shackling1790 ramshackling1815 paralytic1824 rackety1824 rattletrap1824 cocklety1828 ramshackle1830 shickery?1833 shackly1843 shattery1844 shaky1850 ramshackly1857 cockly1859 rachitic1864 ruckly1866 tumble-over1883 palsied1889 rattle-bag1896 shauchly1896 bockety1902 ruggy1929 rickety-rackety1931 ropy1942 1843 Indiana Q. Mag. Hist. III. 121 I stopped at a small poverty-stricken little town called Mt Meridian; shackly houses, huts and hovels..gave no great expectation of refinements. 1843 New Mirror 18 Nov. 116/2 Hitched with oakum before a shackley go-cart, the rocking evolution of whose wheels showed that it was long since they had firmly revolved in their own proper axis. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) What a shackly old carriage! c1850 J. Dow Serm. III. (Bartlett 1860) The general fly-offs and moral unhitches incident to poor shackly mortality. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxi. 180 All kinds of old shackly wagons. 1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc. (new ed.) I. Pref. p. xvii The poverty of the old printing-house... Its scant supply of types, its shackly hand-presses [etc.]. 1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 426 The needless wearing of elastic or shackly-fitted parts of the press. 1897 ‘M. Twain’ More Tramps Abroad lxxi A gaunt, shackly country lout six feet high. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1843
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