ramshackle house
1house — n. building home 1) to build, put up a house 2) to redecorate, refurbish, remodel, renovate a house 3) to demolish, raze, tear down a house 4) to rent a house from smb. 5) to let (BE), rent out (AE) a house to smb. 6) a dilapidated, ramshackle… …
2ramshackle — ramshackleness, n. /ram shak euhl/, adj. loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky: a ramshackle house. [1815 25; cf. earlier rans(h)ackled, obscurely akin to RANSACK] Syn. tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, flimsy. * * * …
3ramshackle — ram•shack•le [[t]ˈræmˌʃæk əl[/t]] adj. loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky: a ramshackle house[/ex] • Etymology: 1815–25 …
4ramshackle — /ˈræmʃækəl / (say ramshakuhl) adjective loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky: a ramshackle house. {earlier ramshackled, from ransackle ransack} …
5house — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 building that is made for one family to live in ADJECTIVE ▪ beautiful, comfortable, elegant, fancy (esp. AmE), fine, grand, handsome, lovely, luxurious …
6ramshackle — adj. Ramshackle is used with these nouns: ↑building, ↑house, ↑hut, ↑tenement …
7ramshackle — Rickety, unsteady, flimsy, in danger of imminent collapse I m sorry, but my nerves won t allow that ramshackle table to stay in this house another minute …
8ramshackle — Rickety, unsteady, flimsy, in danger of imminent collapse I m sorry, but my nerves won t allow that ramshackle table to stay in this house another minute …
9ramshackle — adj. (usu. of a house or vehicle) tumbledown, rickety. Etymology: earlier ramshackled past part. of obs. ransackle RANSACK …
10Peril at End House — infobox Book | name = Peril at End House title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket illustration of the US (true first) edition. See Publication history (below) for UK first edition jacket image. author = Agatha Christie cover artist …
