hovel
huh vuhl
- n small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- Lincoln's journey from a frigid hovel to a toasty double parlor was a personal declaration of independence, his emancipation from poverty's dead end.
- Suddenly to our right we saw a tiny green hovel.
- Bingeing in her Bangkok hovel, they share a tablet of meth, called 'yaba' or mad medicine by the Thais.