English-Thai Dictionary

ramshackle

ADJ คลอนแคลน  โยกเยก  โคลงเคลง  crambling rickety kron-kran

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RAMSHACKLE

Ram "shac *kle, a. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain. ]

 

Defn: Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came. .. my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.

 

RAMSHACKLE

RAMSHACKLE Ram "shac *kle, v. t.

 

Defn: To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ramshackle

ram shack le |ˈramˌSHakəl ˈræmˌʃækəl | ▶adjective (esp. of a house or vehicle ) in a state of severe disrepair: a ramshackle cottage. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (originally dialect in the sense ‘irregular, disorderly ’): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled ‘ransacked. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

ramshackle

ram |shackle |ˈramʃak (ə )l | ▶adjective (especially of a house or vehicle ) in a state of severe disrepair: a ramshackle cottage. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (originally dialect in the sense ‘irregular, disorderly ’): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled ‘ransacked ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

ramshackle

ramshackle adjective their first home was a ramshackle cottage: tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, decrepit, neglected, run-down, gone to rack and ruin, beat-up, crumbling, decaying; rickety, shaky, unsound. ANTONYMS sound, sturdy.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

ramshackle

ramshackle adjective a ramshackle cottage: tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit, neglected, gone to rack and ruin, run down, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, rickety, shaky, unsteady, broken down, unsound, unsafe; informal shambly, geriatric; N. Amer. informal shacky. ANTONYMS well maintained, sturdy.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ramshackle

ram shack le /rǽmʃæ̀k (ə )l /形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗1 おんぼろの, 今にも壊れそうな 〈建物 車など 〉; さびれた .2 寄せ集めの 〈システム 組合など 〉.