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
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spanish
Translations:
choza, cabaña, barraca, casucha
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german
Translations:
bruchbude, baracke, hütte, schuppen
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french
Translations:
taudis, baraque, chaumière, case, bicoque, capote, cabane, hutte, masure
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italian
Translations:
capanna, baracca
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portuguese
Translations:
cabana, choupana, choça
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dutch
Translations:
loods, stulp, schuur, keet, barak, hut
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russian
Translations:
хибарка, хибара, лачуга, навес, ниша, домишко, шалаш, хижина
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norwegian
Translations:
hytte, brakke, skur
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swedish
Translations:
kåk, skjul
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finnish
Translations:
hökkeli, koju, mökki
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czech
Translations:
chatrč, barák, barabizna, bouda
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polish
Translations:
puszka, ciupa, rudera, szopa, nora, chałupa, szałas, buda
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hungarian
Translations:
fáskamra, patkányfészek, szerszámkamra, kulipintyó
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turkish
Translations:
kulübe
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ukrainian
Translations:
навіс, ніша
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estonian
Translations:
osmik, kuur, sara
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croatian
Translations:
nadstrešnica
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icelandic
Translations:
kumbaldi
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lithuanian
Translations:
lūšna
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latvian
Translations:
būda
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macedonian
Translations:
колибата
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romanian
Translations:
colibă
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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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