hut
/hʌt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.84 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
intj
Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
noun
Example Sentences
- "a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut"
- "And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him, Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him."
- "1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109, […] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs."
- "[…] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,"
- "There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night."
- "a groundsman’s hut"
Etymology
From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *hutte, hōd, hute, hutte, hutta, *hudjǭ
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hʌt/
- British English: /hʌt/