ramshackle

• adj.

ramshackled、ガタガタの、からリフレーミングされ、ransackled、強奪された、から書き直され、ransack、略奪、から。

ramshackle

ramshackle: see ransack

ramshackle (adj.)

1809, back-formation from ramshackled, earlier ranshackled (1670s), alteration of ransackled, past participle of ransackle (see ransack). The word seems to have been Scottish.

Reading over this note to an American gentleman, he seemed to take alarm, lest the word ramshackle should be palmed on his country. I take it home willingly, as a Scotticism, and one well applied, as may be afterwards shown. [Robert Gourlay, "General Introduction to a Statistical Account of Upper Canada," London, 1822]

Jamieson's "Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language" (1825) has it as a noun meaning "thoughtless, ignorant fellow."

1. They joined with a ramsackle alliance of other rebels.

彼らと他の反逆者が草を寄せ集めた同盟が手をつないだ。

2.They entered the shop,which was a curious ramsackle building.

彼らは店に入った。それは長年修理されていない珍しい建物だった。

3.At the big ramsackle Baffles Hotel Rule dropped their bags.

ルアーは彼らの荷物を巨大な揺れるラフォールズホテルに降ろした。

4.T-Bag and Self arrive at a ramsackle storefront church.

セオドアとセイフは潰れかけた通り沿いの教会の前に到着した。

5.These ramsackle buildings have fallen down.

そのいくつかの危険家屋が倒壊した。