All hovel synonyms

noun hovel

• hut — a small or humble dwelling of simple construction, especially one made of natural materials, as of logs or grass.
• shack — a rough cabin; shanty.
• shanty — a crudely built hut, cabin, or house.
• cottage — A cottage is a small house, usually in the country.
• lean-to — a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof.
• shed — Textiles. (on a loom) a triangular, transverse opening created between raised and lowered warp threads through which the shuttle passes in depositing the loose pick.
• hutch — a pen or enclosed coop for small animals: rabbit hutch.
• dump — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• den — A den is the home of certain types of wild animals such as lions or foxes.
• pigpen — a pen for keeping pigs.
• hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
• sty — a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
• cabin — A cabin is a small room in a ship or boat.
• burrow — A burrow is a tunnel or hole in the ground that is dug by an animal such as a rabbit.
• rathole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
• rattrap — a device for catching rats.
• pigsty — pigpen.
• slum — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
• squat — to sit in a low or crouching position with the legs drawn up closely beneath or in front of the body; sit on one's haunches or heels.
• fleabag — a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
• fleapit — a shabby public place, especially a run-down motion-picture theater.