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Yes. The word hut is a Scrabble US word. The word hut is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (1 found)

HUT,

2-letter words (2 found)

UH,UT,

You can make 3 words from hut according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of hut

hut

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hʌt/
  • (Northern England) IPA(key): /hʊt/
  • Rhymes: -ʌt

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

hut (plural huts)

  1. A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
    • 1625, Nicholas Breton, “An Untrained Souldiour” in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, p. 31,[3]
      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,[4]
      [] 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.
  2. A small wooden shed.
  3. (agriculture, obsolete) A small stack of grain.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • cabin
  • cottage
  • shack
  • shanty

Verb

hut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
    • 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,[8]
      Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.
  3. (agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).

Etymology 2

A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.

Interjection

hut

  1. (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
Related terms
  • ten-hut

References

Anagrams

  • THU, Thu, UHT

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *hut, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewt- (downwards). Cognate with Ancient Greek αὔτως (aútōs, in vain), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (auþeis).

Adverb

hut

  1. in vain, vainly
  2. empty, idle
  3. good, appropriate
Derived terms
  • hutoj
    • hutrrohem
    • hutrrojë

Etymology 2

From the adverb or an onomatopoeia (compare English hoot).

Noun

hut m (plural hutë, definite huti, definite plural hutët)

  1. owl
Declension

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hutte, from Middle High German hütte, from Old High German hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦʏt/
  • Hyphenation: hut
  • Rhymes: -ʏt

Noun

hut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)

  1. a small wooden shed, hut.
  2. a primitive dwelling.
  3. a cabin on a boat.
  4. a usually simple recreational lodging, pub, or suchlike for scouting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on.
  5. (archaic or toponym) a roadhouse, inn or pub, sometimes primitive and/or of ill repute.

Derived terms

Kumeyaay

Pronunciation

Noun

hut

  1. dog.

Old Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German hütte (modern German Hütte).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈɣut/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈɦut/

Noun

hut f

  1. booth, stand
  2. workhouse
  3. ironworks, steelworks
  4. warehouse
  5. quarry

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: huť

References

  • Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “hut”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, whence also Old English hyd, Old Norse húð.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /huːt/

Noun

hūt f

  1. hide
  2. (anatomy) skin

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle High German: hūt
    • Alemannic German: Hutt
      Walser: Huut
    • Cimbrian: haut
    • Central Franconian: Hock, Hout; Huut; Huck
      Hunsrik: Haut, haut
    • German: Haut
    • Luxembourgish: Haut
    • Yiddish: הויט (hoyt)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xut/
  • Rhymes: -ut
  • Syllabification: hut
  • Homophone: chód

Noun

hut f

  1. genitive plural of huta

Swedish

Etymology

Of imitative origin. Originally a call to stop, chase away, or silence dogs. Attested since 1645. Compare Middle High German hiuzen (to call to pursuit), English hoot.

Noun

hut c

  1. respect, good manners, (ability to feel appropriate) shame

Related terms

  • huta
  • hutlös

See also

  • nu går skam på torra land

Interjection

hut

  1. behave! (same as: du ska veta hut! = vet hut! = hut!)

References

  • hut in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • hut in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • hut in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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