ramshackle
rams·hackle
adjective
1.
- “a street of bedraggled tenements”
- “a broken-down fence”
- “a ramshackle old pier”
- “a tumble-down shack”
Origin
First attested in 1830, a back-formation from ramshackled, from ransackled, past participle of ransackle (“to ransack”), frequentative of Middle English ransaken (“to pillage”).
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