hovel

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
2. (derogatory) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
3. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
4. (Midwestern-US, archaic, slang) A straitjacket.

Verb

1. (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
2. (transitive) To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.

Conceptos

chabola

cabaña

cuchitril

tugurio

choza

🛖

covacha

quilombo

casa bruja

cambuche

zaquizamí

cobertizo

jacal

casucha

champa

Sinónimos

hut

🛖

shack

shanty

shed

cottage

thatched cottage

hutch

my humble cottage

home

🏠

dump

house

🏠

kennel

outhouse

pigpen

poorhouse

ramshackle hut

shebang

shelter

slum

small

small house

small room

sty

jeryhouse

mean dwelling

rat-trap

dilapidated house

miserable shack

aperture

blighted house

bungalow

byre

cabin

cell

cot

crib

den

doghouse

Traducciones

Hütte

🛖

taudis

masure

stamberga

tugurio

casupola

krot

catapecchia

cabane

baracca

🛖

kot

👎

capanna

🛖

Schuppen

cabana

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈhɒvəl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: hovel

Cognado con alto alemán medio: hobel

Cognado con neerlandés: hof

Cognado con alemán: Hof

Cognado con islandés: hof

In summary

From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, building, house”), from Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“arch, bend, buckle”), equivalent to howf + -el. Compare Middle High German hobel (“cover, lid, covered wagon”).
Cognate with Dutch hof (“garden, court”), German Hof (“yard, garden, court, palace”), Icelandic hof (“temple, hall”). Related to hove and hover.