tumbledown
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See also: tumble down
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Deverbal from tumble down.
Adjective[edit]
tumbledown (comparative more tumbledown, superlative most tumbledown)
- in disrepair; poorly maintained
- They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
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Translations[edit]
in disrepair, poorly maintained
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