Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - barrack
Barrack
barrack
1. n. & v. --n. (usu. in pl., often treated as sing.) 1 a building or building complex used to house soldiers. 2 any building used to accommodate large numbers of people. 3 a large building of a bleak or plain appearance. --v.tr. place (soldiers etc.) in barracks. Phrases and idioms barrack-room lawyer Brit. a pompously argumentative person. barrack-square a drill-ground near a barracks. Etymology: F baraque f. It. baracca or Sp. barraca soldier's tent, of unkn. orig. 2. v. Brit. 1 tr. shout or jeer at (players in a game, a performer, speaker, etc.). 2 intr. (of spectators at games etc.) shout or jeer. Etymology: app. f. BORAK
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I. noun Etymology: French baraque hut, from Catalan barraca Date: 1686 a building or set of buildings used especially for lodging soldiers in garrison, 2. a structure resembling a shed or barn that provides temporary housing, housing characterized by extreme plainness or dreary uniformity, II. transitive verb Date: 1701 to lodge in ~s, III. verb Etymology: perhaps from dialect (northern Ireland) ~ to brag Date: 1887 transitive verb to shout at derisively or sarcastically, intransitive verb root, cheer, jeer, scoff, ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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