shackly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from dialectal shackle (“to shake, rattle”) + -y.
Adjective
[edit]shackly (comparative more shackly, superlative most shackly)
- (UK, US, colloquial, dated) Shaky, rickety, ramshackle.
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, page 228:
- when I got to that old shackly brick store by the Temperance Tavern, I backed up agin the wall to have another think.
- (dialectal) Loose-jointed, shambling.