shacky

[ shak-ee ]

adjective

, shack·i·er, shack·i·est.

1. run-down; dilapidated:

   a shacky old place.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shacky¹

shack ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

The newlyweds moved into what Mary called a “run-down, shacky house,” and when Paul Ellis died C.P.’s mother and sister moved in with them.

From Literature

“To look back on it now, we were in this little shacky place with no phone and no television,” Jody said.

From Washington Times

"It does look shacky but it's home, and I love it, you bet," she said.

From Project Gutenberg

But when Joanna wanted a thing she did not mind paying for it, and she had wanted Great Ansdore very much, though no one knew better than she that it was shacky and mouldy.

From Project Gutenberg

The knights mounted and rode in a line past the grandstand, and the king stopped the poor student, who had the worst horse and the poorest caparisons of any of the knights and said: "Sir Knight, prithee tell me of what that marvellous shacky and rusty-looking armor of thine is made?"

From Project Gutenberg