ramshackle
/ˈræmˌʃækl/adjective
- (especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair(尤指房屋、车辆)严重失修的; 摇摇欲坠的, 东歪西倒的:
a ramshackle cottage.
摇摇欲坠的村舍。
词源
early 19th cent. (originally dialect in the sense 'irregular, disorderly'): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled 'ransacked'.