RAMSHACKLE


Meaning of RAMSHACKLE in English

I. ˈramˌshakəl, ˈraam- adjective

Etymology: short for earlier ramshackled, alteration of ransackled, from past participle of obsolete ransackle to ransack, freq. of ransack

1. : appearing as if ready to collapse : dilapidated , rickety

once imposing though now ramshackle roof — Ellen Glasgow

mounted on a ramshackle horse — W.F.Starkie

a dirty ramshackle pier — George Santayana

2. : having little moral sense : dissipated , unruly

worrying about the ramshackle morality of … adolescents — John McCarten

I may be getting ramshackle — H.G.Wells

3. : carelessly or loosely constructed

the plot is innocent and ramshackle — Wolcott Gibbs

the book is a ramshackle affair — J.A.Michener

II. noun

: a ramshackle thing

here in the faded ramshackle — Carl Sandburg

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.