词汇 | shack |
词源 | shack. The Aztec xacalli, “wooden hut,” gives us our word for a miserable hut or shanty. Shack came into English in the 1870s, in the American Southwest, via the Mexican xacal, or jacal, which is pronounced as though written “shacal.” |
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