英语词汇ramshackle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ramshackle. Ramshackle is one of the relatively few words Icelandic has contributed to English, if it does come from that language, as some scholars believe. Ramskakkr, “very twisted,” is the possible Icelandic source for our word meaning “loosely made or held together, rickety, shaky,” but there are other sus- pects, including ranshacle, “to wreck or destroy by plundering”—which would make something ramshackled “wrecked or destroyed by plundering.” The word is first record- ed in 1675.

词汇	ramshackle
词源	ramshackle. Ramshackle is one of the relatively few words Icelandic has contributed to English, if it does come from that language, as some scholars believe. Ramskakkr, “very twisted,” is the possible Icelandic source for our word meaning “loosely made or held together, rickety, shaky,” but there are other sus- pects, including ranshacle, “to wreck or destroy by plundering”—which would make something ramshackled “wrecked or destroyed by plundering.” The word is first record- ed in 1675.
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