Word: hovel

Category: hovel

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Synonyms: hovel

waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels

Translations: hovel

hovel in spanish

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spanish
Translations:
choza, cabaña, barraca, casucha

hovel in german

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german
Translations:
bruchbude, baracke, hütte, schuppen

hovel in french

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french
Translations:
taudis, baraque, chaumière, case, bicoque, capote, cabane, hutte, masure

hovel in italian

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italian
Translations:
capanna, baracca

hovel in portuguese

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portuguese
Translations:
cabana, choupana, choça

hovel in dutch

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dutch
Translations:
loods, stulp, schuur, keet, barak, hut

hovel in russian

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russian
Translations:
хибарка, хибара, лачуга, навес, ниша, домишко, шалаш, хижина

hovel in norwegian

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norwegian
Translations:
hytte, brakke, skur

hovel in swedish

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swedish
Translations:
kåk, skjul

hovel in finnish

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finnish
Translations:
hökkeli, koju, mökki

hovel in czech

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czech
Translations:
chatrč, barák, barabizna, bouda

hovel in polish

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polish
Translations:
puszka, ciupa, rudera, szopa, nora, chałupa, szałas, buda

hovel in hungarian

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hungarian
Translations:
fáskamra, patkányfészek, szerszámkamra, kulipintyó

hovel in turkish

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turkish
Translations:
kulübe

hovel in ukrainian

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ukrainian
Translations:
навіс, ніша

hovel in estonian

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estonian
Translations:
osmik, kuur, sara

hovel in croatian

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croatian
Translations:
nadstrešnica

hovel in icelandic

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icelandic
Translations:
kumbaldi

hovel in lithuanian

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lithuanian
Translations:
lūšna

hovel in latvian

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latvian
Translations:
būda

hovel in macedonian

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macedonian
Translations:
колибата

hovel in romanian

Dictionary:
romanian
Translations:
colibă

hovel in slovak

Dictionary:
slovak
Translations:
chatrč

The meaning and "use of": hovel

noun
  • a small, squalid, unpleasant, or simply constructed dwelling. - Despite their squalid hovels and ragged clothes, Arthur Young reported that the poor of Ireland were ‘as athletic in their form, as robust, and as capable of enduring labour as any upon earth’.
  • a conical building enclosing a kiln. - The HOVEL acts as a chimney; taking away the smoke, creating draught and protecting the oven inside from the weather and uneven draughts.

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