shantyn.¹

Brit.

/ˈʃanti/, U.S.

/ˈʃæn(t)i/

Forms: Also chanty, shantie, shantee.

Etymology: Probably corruptly < French chantier (see chantier n.) used in Canada in the senses: ‘an establishment regularly organized in the forests in winter for the felling of trees; the head-quarters at which the woodcutters assemble after their day's work’ (Clapin, Dict. Canad.-Fr., 1894). See 1c below; it is uncertain whether this is a survival of the original sense, or a late specific application suggested by the French word. It may be further remarked that shantyman, a lumberman, is precisely synonymous with homme de chantier (Dunn, Gloss. Franco-Canad., 1880, p. 38.

a. Chiefly U.S. and Canadian. A small, mean, roughly constructed dwelling; a cabin, a hut.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]

hulka1000

boothc1200

hull?c1225

lodge1290

hottea1325

holetc1380

tavern1382

scalea1400

schura1400

tugury1412

donjon?a1439

cabinc1440

coshc1490

cabinet1579

bully1598

crib1600

shed1600

hut1637

hovela1640

boorachc1660

barrack1686

bothy1750

corf1770

rancho1819

shanty1820

kraal1832

shelty1834

shackle1835

mia-mia1837

wickiup1838

caboose1839

chantier1849

hangar1852

caban1866

shebang1867

humpy1873

shack1878

hale1885

bach1927

jhuggi1927

favela1961

hokkie1973

1820 Z. Hawley Tour (1822) [These people (in Ohio)] lived in what is here called a shanty. This is a hovel of about 10 feet by 8, made somewhat in the form of an ordinary cow-house.

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. xvi. 256 I offer you, as my side of the business, one half of my shanty.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. ii. 191 Our shanty was completed in good time before the evening. [The scene is Canadian.]

1832 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada (1836) vi. 93 The shanty is a sort of primitive hut in Canadian architecture, and is nothing more than a shed built of logs.

1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) i. 4 When we entered the shantee, Job was busy dealing out his rum.., and I called for a quart of the best.

1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xvii. 173 Not a few lounged around the wide door of a temporary building or ‘shanty’, as we say, erected for the refreshment of the guests.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvii. 224 And driving, like the shanty on a raft, before a howling gale.

1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 254 They pass the temples,..and then village after village of poor-looking bamboo shanties.

1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley i. 2 It's on the Essex coast, just a rambling old farm-house standing rather high..; it's just, in fact, a picturesque shanty.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1841–4 R. W. Emerson Nature in Wks. (1906) I. 226 He has delineated estates of romance, compared with which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.

1851 H. Melville in J. Hawthorne N. Hawthorne & Wife (1885) I. 399 I have been building some shanties of houses..and likewise some shanties of chapters and essays.

attributive.1888 Duke of Argyll New Brit. Constit. 98 One of the group of men who have been building a shanty-constitution for us to replace the spacious palaces of our ancient laws.

c. = Canadian French chantier (see the etymology). See the comb. shanty-gang, -team, shantyman ( Compounds 1 below).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > herdsman's, shepherd's, etc.

shiel1291

tilt1612

shepherd's hut1663

chalet1784

shanty1824

stock-hut1827

kiln-hole1828

hok1930

1824 Canadian Mag. 3 201 They commence by building a log cabin called a Chanty to shelter them from the weather, and hence another appellation they are known by, namely Chanty Men.

1829 J. MacTaggart Three Years in Canada I. 242 In these shanties they pass the time pretty well, considering them to be made up of Highlandmen, Irishmen, and Yankees.

1876 D. Wilson in Encycl. Brit. IV. 774/1 Lumber shanties are constructed capable of accommodating from 25 to 50 men.

2. Australian and New Zealand. A public-house, esp. unlicensed; a ‘sly-grog shop’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house

shebeenc1787

joint1821

kiddleywink1830

blind tiger1857

shanty1862

dive1871

blind-pig1887

speakeasy1889

shebeen1900

booze can1905

speak1930

speako1931

nip joint1936

1862 Otago Goldfields & Resources 28 These accommodation houses are not mere ‘shanties’ and the traveller, with ordinary precautions, is always safe.

1864 J. Rogers New Rush ii. 52 The Keepers of the stores and shanties grieve.

1880 H. Lapham in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 57 When I first saw it..nearly every second house was a ‘shanty’ or a store.

1902 H. Lawson Children of Bush 209 They got up a darnse at Peter Anderson's shanty acrost the ridges.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)

shanty-cook n.

ΚΠ

1876 D. Wilson in Encycl. Brit. IV. 774/1 [article Canada] The shanty-cook is an important member of the little community.

shanty-dweller n.

ΚΠ

1970 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 23 Jan. 1/3 Rich-quick land racketeers who leased small plots to shanty-dwellers in return for ‘rent’.

shanty home n.

ΚΠ

1970 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 2 Jan. 15/4 The fire..destroyed some 98 shanty homes.

shanty hovel n.

ΚΠ

1862 E. Dicey Six Months in Federal States (1863) II. 46 Miserable wooden shanty hovels.

shanty shop n.

ΚΠ

1891 H. Melville Timoleon 63 And here and there a shanty-shop Where Fez-caps, swords, tobacco, shawls Lay orderless.

1969 Cultural News from India Nov. 20 Shanty shops on pavements, packed buses and tram cars..mark the biggest annual festival of Bengal.

shanty slum n.

ΚΠ

1969 A. G. Frank Lat. Amer. (1970) xix. 300 The wealth and elegance of downtown Mexico City dazzle the visitor..but equally do the miles of Mexico City's shanty slums depress.

b. (In sense 1c.)

shanty-gang n.

ΚΠ

1894 Outing 24 94/2 We came along just as a shanty gang had turned a drive of square timber out of the branch [of the river].

shanty-team n.

ΚΠ

1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 6 Apr. The last of the shanty-teams of the season have about gone through here on their way home.

c. (In sense 2.)

shanty-bar n.

ΚΠ

1902 H. Lawson Children of Bush 240 What damned fools we'd been throwing away our money over shanty bars.

shanty-keeper n.

ΚΠ

1874 V. Pyke Adventures G. W. Pratt i. iii. 6 The shanty-keeper interposed.

1875 S. Wood & H. Lapham Waiting for Mail 45 Mrs. Smith was a shanty-keeper's wife.

shanty liquor n.

ΚΠ

1886 H. C. Kendall Poems 209 He'll..swig at shanty liquors.

C2.

shanty-boat n. a kind of house-boat used by lumbermen.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > houseboat

houseboat1772

Tanka boat1839

house-barge1860

shanty-boat1880

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > houseboat > type of

hulk1671

Tanka boat1839

shanty-boat1880

quarter boat1929

1880 N. H. Bishop Four Months in Sneak-box iv. 58 Shanty-boats..are sometimes called, and justly too, family boats.

1880 N. H. Bishop Four Months in Sneak-box iv. 59 The shanty-boatman looks to the river not only for his life, but also for the means of making that life pleasant.

1897 Outing 29 368/1 We were joined by a very small boy from a shanty-boat.

shanty-cake n. a cake baked on or in hot ashes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake baked in ashes

easle-cakec1440

shanty-cake1848

turf-cake1863

1848 Knickerbocker Mar. 223 The back-woods-man [must have] his ‘chicken-fixins’ and ‘shanty-cake’.

shanty Irish adj. U.S. belonging to the Irish lower-classes; also elliptical.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [adjective] > specifically Irish

kernish1581

shanty Irish1928

1928 J. Tully Shanty Irish xi. 117 I'm just plain Shanty Irish an' I'll go to hell when I die.

1975 J. F. Burke Death Trick (1976) v. 79 That shanty Irish bitch!..She hit me..and got away.

shanty Irish n. (plural) .

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > collectively > specifically Irish

shanty Irish1966

1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 35 Shanty-..Irish, i.e., those who remain in the lower-class communities near the center of the city (or, irrespective of residency, preserve the social traits of the shanty Irish).

shanty Irishman n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person > specifically Irish

kernaugh1535

kern1589

shanty Irishman1934

1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan xx. 334 The Irish made a shanty Irishman out of Christ.

shantyman n. a lumberman.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman

wood-hewerc1000

wooderc1050

hagger1294

wood-hagger1294

feller1422

woodman1426

faller1614

wood-maker1616

forest-feller1618

axeman1671

holt-felstera1678

stocker1686

bayman1715

logger1734

wood-cutter1758

lumberer1809

lumbermana1817

shantyman1824

chopper1827

splitter1841

bushman1846

mahogany cutter1850

piner1871

bush-faller1882

lumberjack1888

bushwhacker1898

home guard1903

Jack1910

gyppo1912

timber-getter1912

timberjack1916

timber beast1919

1824Shanty man [see sense 1c].

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Shantyman, a lumberer or wood cutter; one who lives in a shanty.

1893 Scribner's Mag. June 702/2 The typical shantyman works only fitfully in summer.

shanty town n. a suburb consisting of shanties, spec. a poor or depressed area of a city or town.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > shanty town

shanty town1876

Hooverville1933

bidonville1955

favela1961

pueblo joven1969

kasi1988

1876 Potter's American Monthly Oct. 400/2 (caption) Shanty town.

1880 Daily Graphic (N.Y.) 4 Mar. 38 (caption) A scene in shantytown, New York.

1917 U. Sinclair King Coal 36 There's lots of people have boarders in shanty-town.

1946 V. Lincoln in 55 Short Stories from New Yorker (1952) 36 I found White Creek Row. It was the town's Hooverville..a tragic, shocking, sordid shanty town.

1954 H. Gibbs Background to Bitterness ii. vii. 121 By the end of 1871 over 10,000 diggers occupied the hot, corrugated iron shanty-town of Kimberley.

1980 Times 4 Jan. 6/5 The overpopulated [Turkish] cities are girdled with slummy shanty towns.

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shantyn.²

Brit.

/ˈʃanti/, U.S.

/ˈʃæn(t)i/

Forms: 1800s–1900s chantey, 1800s–1900s chanty, 1800s– shanty.

Etymology: Said to be a corruption of French chantez, imperative of chanter to sing. N.E.D. (1913) enters this under the double headword shanty, chant(e)y and gives the pronunciation as (tʃa·nti, tʃæ·nti, ʃ-) /ˈtʃɑːntɪ/, /ˈtʃæntɪ/, /ʃɑːntɪ/, /ʃæntɪ/.

A sailor's song, esp. one sung during heavy work.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > sailors' songs

sea-song1659

yo-hope1724

jorram1774

barcarolle1779

tactic1779

boat song1806

Nancy Dawsona1827

stamp and go1830

shanty1856

fore-bitter1906

α.

1869 Chambers's Jrnl. 11 Dec. 794 (heading) Sailors' Shanties and Sea-Songs.

1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 93 He began to try singing shanties.

attributive.1876 C. D. Warner Winter on Nile xi. 153 The ‘shanty man’ the English sailors call their leader from the French chanter.β. 1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life xvi. 165 The anchor came to the bow with the chanty of ‘Oh, Riley, Oh’.1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Pref. 11 So the same ‘chantey’, as the windlass or halliard chorus is called, furnishes the music to as many various indignant remonstrances as Jack can find injuries to sing about.1888 L. A. Smith (title) The Music of the Waters: a Collection of the Sailors' Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of all Maritime Nations.1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 23 May we lift a Deepsea Chantey such as seamen use at sea?1900 Daily News 9 Apr. 5/1 The British chantey, ‘For he's a jolly good fellow’.1925 D. Garnett Sailor's Return 16 The seaman began a loud and rolling chanty.1955 Times 24 Aug. 7/4 The sea chanty was essentially a working song.attributive.1856 C. Nordhoff Merchant Vessel iv. 40 The foreman is the chanty-man, who sings the song, the gang only joining in the chorus.1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life iv. 41 A chanty gang was engaged to hoist out the cargo.1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life iv. 44 The chanty men wanted biscuit.1890 W. E. Henley Views & Rev.: Lit. 153 The melancholy song of the chanty-men.1906 Temple Bar Jan. 60 The Chantyman. The Crimee war is over now. The Sailors. Sebastopol is taken.

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shantyadj.

Forms: 1600s shante, shauntee, 1800s shantee, shaunty, shawnty, 1700s– shanty.

Etymology: < French gentil /ʒɑ̃ti/: see genteel adj., n., and adv., jaunty adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshanty.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

Showy, smart.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart

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galliard1513

fine1526

trickly1580

pink1598

genteel1601

sparkful1605

sparkish1657

jaunty1662

spankinga1666

shanty1685

trig1725

smartish1738

distinguished1748

nobby1788

dashing1801

vaudy1805

swell1810

distingué1813

dashy1822

nutty1823

chic1832

slicked1836

flash1838

rakish1840

spiffy1853

smart1860

sassy1861

classy1870

spiffing1872

toffish1873

tony1877

swish1879

hep1899

toffy1901

hip1904

toppy1905

in1906

floozy1911

swank1913

jazz1917

ritzy1919

smooth1920

snappy1925

snazzy1931

groovy1937

what ho1937

gussy1940

criss1954

high camp1954

sprauncy1957

James Bondish1966

James Bond1967

schmick1972

designer1978

atas1993

as fine as fivepence-

1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice Epil. Each Shante Spark, that can the Fashion hit.

?c1730 J. Haynes Dorsetshire Vocab. in Notes & Queries (1883) 21 July 45/1 Shanty-man, genteel man.

1737 R. Drury Rival Milliners ii. xiii Where is the gay, engaging, shanty Mien?

a1800 J. Warton Fashion 79 'Tis thine for sleeves to teach the shantiest cuts.

1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. in Archaeologia 17 157 Shantee, or Shanty, gay, showy.

1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Shanty, smart, flanting.

1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Shaunty, showy, flashy, affecting to be tasteful in apparel or ornament.

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shantyv.

Brit.

/ˈʃanti/, U.S.

/ˈʃæn(t)i/

Etymology: < shanty n.¹

1. intransitive. To live in a shanty or temporary log hut.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in or as in other buildings

cabin1586

den1610

stable1651

hut1691

templea1711

bog-trota1734

sty1748

village1819

shanty1840

shack1895

flat1966

1840 C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer I. v. 97 You see..the comfort to a man—who shanties out as much as I do—of having a home all fixed and ready for you.

1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 197 (Bartlett 1860) Mark Shuff and a friend of his, who were trapping, shantied on the outlet, just at the foot of Tupper's Lake.

2. Australian. ‘To visit a grog-shanty habitually; drink frequently or habitually at a public-house’ ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink habitually > in public house

shanty1888

1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms iii I was put out at his laying it down so about the Dalys and us shantying and gaffing.

Derivatives

ˈshantying n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [noun] > a log cabin

shantying1824

1824 Canadian Mag. 3 202 Such is the usual routine of what is called Shantying in Canada.

1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 212 (Bartlett 1860) When we got back to our shantying ground we were tuckered out, as you may believe.

1926 F. Rickaby Ballads & Songs of Shanty-boy 47 Shantying I'll give o'er when I'm landed safe on shore, And I'll lead a different life.

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n.¹1820

n.²1856

adj.1685

v.1824

单词	shanty
释义	shantyn.¹ Brit. /ˈʃanti/, U.S. /ˈʃæn(t)i/ Forms: Also chanty, shantie, shantee. Etymology: Probably corruptly < French chantier (see chantier n.) used in Canada in the senses: ‘an establishment regularly organized in the forests in winter for the felling of trees; the head-quarters at which the woodcutters assemble after their day's work’ (Clapin, Dict. Canad.-Fr., 1894). See 1c below; it is uncertain whether this is a survival of the original sense, or a late specific application suggested by the French word. It may be further remarked that shantyman, a lumberman, is precisely synonymous with homme de chantier (Dunn, Gloss. Franco-Canad., 1880, p. 38. 1. a. Chiefly U.S. and Canadian. A small, mean, roughly constructed dwelling; a cabin, a hut. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] hulka1000 boothc1200 hull?c1225 lodge1290 hottea1325 holetc1380 tavern1382 scalea1400 schura1400 tugury1412 donjon?a1439 cabinc1440 coshc1490 cabinet1579 bully1598 crib1600 shed1600 hut1637 hovela1640 boorachc1660 barrack1686 bothy1750 corf1770 rancho1819 shanty1820 kraal1832 shelty1834 shackle1835 mia-mia1837 wickiup1838 caboose1839 chantier1849 hangar1852 caban1866 shebang1867 humpy1873 shack1878 hale1885 bach1927 jhuggi1927 favela1961 hokkie1973 1820 Z. Hawley Tour (1822) [These people (in Ohio)] lived in what is here called a shanty. This is a hovel of about 10 feet by 8, made somewhat in the form of an ordinary cow-house. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. xvi. 256 I offer you, as my side of the business, one half of my shanty. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. ii. 191 Our shanty was completed in good time before the evening. [The scene is Canadian.] 1832 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada (1836) vi. 93 The shanty is a sort of primitive hut in Canadian architecture, and is nothing more than a shed built of logs. 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) i. 4 When we entered the shantee, Job was busy dealing out his rum.., and I called for a quart of the best. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xvii. 173 Not a few lounged around the wide door of a temporary building or ‘shanty’, as we say, erected for the refreshment of the guests. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvii. 224 And driving, like the shanty on a raft, before a howling gale. 1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 254 They pass the temples,..and then village after village of poor-looking bamboo shanties. 1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley i. 2 It's on the Essex coast, just a rambling old farm-house standing rather high..; it's just, in fact, a picturesque shanty. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Nature in Wks. (1906) I. 226 He has delineated estates of romance, compared with which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks. 1851 H. Melville in J. Hawthorne N. Hawthorne & Wife (1885) I. 399 I have been building some shanties of houses..and likewise some shanties of chapters and essays. attributive.1888 Duke of Argyll New Brit. Constit. 98 One of the group of men who have been building a shanty-constitution for us to replace the spacious palaces of our ancient laws. c. = Canadian French chantier (see the etymology). See the comb. shanty-gang, -team, shantyman ( Compounds 1 below). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > herdsman's, shepherd's, etc. shiel1291 tilt1612 shepherd's hut1663 chalet1784 shanty1824 stock-hut1827 kiln-hole1828 hok1930 1824 Canadian Mag. 3 201 They commence by building a log cabin called a Chanty to shelter them from the weather, and hence another appellation they are known by, namely Chanty Men. 1829 J. MacTaggart Three Years in Canada I. 242 In these shanties they pass the time pretty well, considering them to be made up of Highlandmen, Irishmen, and Yankees. 1876 D. Wilson in Encycl. Brit. IV. 774/1 Lumber shanties are constructed capable of accommodating from 25 to 50 men. 2. Australian and New Zealand. A public-house, esp. unlicensed; a ‘sly-grog shop’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house shebeenc1787 joint1821 kiddleywink1830 blind tiger1857 shanty1862 dive1871 blind-pig1887 speakeasy1889 shebeen1900 booze can1905 speak1930 speako1931 nip joint1936 1862 Otago Goldfields & Resources 28 These accommodation houses are not mere ‘shanties’ and the traveller, with ordinary precautions, is always safe. 1864 J. Rogers New Rush ii. 52 The Keepers of the stores and shanties grieve. 1880 H. Lapham in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 57 When I first saw it..nearly every second house was a ‘shanty’ or a store. 1902 H. Lawson Children of Bush 209 They got up a darnse at Peter Anderson's shanty acrost the ridges. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.) shanty-cook n. ΚΠ 1876 D. Wilson in Encycl. Brit. IV. 774/1 [article Canada] The shanty-cook is an important member of the little community. shanty-dweller n. ΚΠ 1970 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 23 Jan. 1/3 Rich-quick land racketeers who leased small plots to shanty-dwellers in return for ‘rent’. shanty home n. ΚΠ 1970 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 2 Jan. 15/4 The fire..destroyed some 98 shanty homes. shanty hovel n. ΚΠ 1862 E. Dicey Six Months in Federal States (1863) II. 46 Miserable wooden shanty hovels. shanty shop n. ΚΠ 1891 H. Melville Timoleon 63 And here and there a shanty-shop Where Fez-caps, swords, tobacco, shawls Lay orderless. 1969 Cultural News from India Nov. 20 Shanty shops on pavements, packed buses and tram cars..mark the biggest annual festival of Bengal. shanty slum n. ΚΠ 1969 A. G. Frank Lat. Amer. (1970) xix. 300 The wealth and elegance of downtown Mexico City dazzle the visitor..but equally do the miles of Mexico City's shanty slums depress. b. (In sense 1c.) shanty-gang n. ΚΠ 1894 Outing 24 94/2 We came along just as a shanty gang had turned a drive of square timber out of the branch [of the river]. shanty-team n. ΚΠ 1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 6 Apr. The last of the shanty-teams of the season have about gone through here on their way home. c. (In sense 2.) shanty-bar n. ΚΠ 1902 H. Lawson Children of Bush 240 What damned fools we'd been throwing away our money over shanty bars. shanty-keeper n. ΚΠ 1874 V. Pyke Adventures G. W. Pratt i. iii. 6 The shanty-keeper interposed. 1875 S. Wood & H. Lapham Waiting for Mail 45 Mrs. Smith was a shanty-keeper's wife. shanty liquor n. ΚΠ 1886 H. C. Kendall Poems 209 He'll..swig at shanty liquors. C2. shanty-boat n. a kind of house-boat used by lumbermen. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > houseboat houseboat1772 Tanka boat1839 house-barge1860 shanty-boat1880 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > houseboat > type of hulk1671 Tanka boat1839 shanty-boat1880 quarter boat1929 1880 N. H. Bishop Four Months in Sneak-box iv. 58 Shanty-boats..are sometimes called, and justly too, family boats. 1880 N. H. Bishop Four Months in Sneak-box iv. 59 The shanty-boatman looks to the river not only for his life, but also for the means of making that life pleasant. 1897 Outing 29 368/1 We were joined by a very small boy from a shanty-boat. shanty-cake n. a cake baked on or in hot ashes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake baked in ashes easle-cakec1440 shanty-cake1848 turf-cake1863 1848 Knickerbocker Mar. 223 The back-woods-man [must have] his ‘chicken-fixins’ and ‘shanty-cake’. shanty Irish adj. U.S. belonging to the Irish lower-classes; also elliptical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [adjective] > specifically Irish kernish1581 shanty Irish1928 1928 J. Tully Shanty Irish xi. 117 I'm just plain Shanty Irish an' I'll go to hell when I die. 1975 J. F. Burke Death Trick (1976) v. 79 That shanty Irish bitch!..She hit me..and got away. shanty Irish n. (plural) . ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > collectively > specifically Irish shanty Irish1966 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 35 Shanty-..Irish, i.e., those who remain in the lower-class communities near the center of the city (or, irrespective of residency, preserve the social traits of the shanty Irish). shanty Irishman n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person > specifically Irish kernaugh1535 kern1589 shanty Irishman1934 1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan xx. 334 The Irish made a shanty Irishman out of Christ. shantyman n. a lumberman. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1824Shanty man [see sense 1c]. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Shantyman, a lumberer or wood cutter; one who lives in a shanty. 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 702/2 The typical shantyman works only fitfully in summer. shanty town n. a suburb consisting of shanties, spec. a poor or depressed area of a city or town. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > shanty town shanty town1876 Hooverville1933 bidonville1955 favela1961 pueblo joven1969 kasi1988 1876 Potter's American Monthly Oct. 400/2 (caption) Shanty town. 1880 Daily Graphic (N.Y.) 4 Mar. 38 (caption) A scene in shantytown, New York. 1917 U. Sinclair King Coal 36 There's lots of people have boarders in shanty-town. 1946 V. Lincoln in 55 Short Stories from New Yorker (1952) 36 I found White Creek Row. It was the town's Hooverville..a tragic, shocking, sordid shanty town. 1954 H. Gibbs Background to Bitterness ii. vii. 121 By the end of 1871 over 10,000 diggers occupied the hot, corrugated iron shanty-town of Kimberley. 1980 Times 4 Jan. 6/5 The overpopulated [Turkish] cities are girdled with slummy shanty towns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). shantyn.² Brit. /ˈʃanti/, U.S. /ˈʃæn(t)i/ Forms: 1800s–1900s chantey, 1800s–1900s chanty, 1800s– shanty. Etymology: Said to be a corruption of French chantez, imperative of chanter to sing. N.E.D. (1913) enters this under the double headword shanty, chant(e)y and gives the pronunciation as (tʃa·nti, tʃæ·nti, ʃ-) /ˈtʃɑːntɪ/, /ˈtʃæntɪ/, /ʃɑːntɪ/, /ʃæntɪ/. A sailor's song, esp. one sung during heavy work. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > sailors' songs sea-song1659 yo-hope1724 jorram1774 barcarolle1779 tactic1779 boat song1806 Nancy Dawsona1827 stamp and go1830 shanty1856 fore-bitter1906 α. 1869 Chambers's Jrnl. 11 Dec. 794 (heading) Sailors' Shanties and Sea-Songs. 1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 93 He began to try singing shanties. attributive.1876 C. D. Warner Winter on Nile xi. 153 The ‘shanty man’ the English sailors call their leader from the French chanter.β. 1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life xvi. 165 The anchor came to the bow with the chanty of ‘Oh, Riley, Oh’.1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Pref. 11 So the same ‘chantey’, as the windlass or halliard chorus is called, furnishes the music to as many various indignant remonstrances as Jack can find injuries to sing about.1888 L. A. Smith (title) The Music of the Waters: a Collection of the Sailors' Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of all Maritime Nations.1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 23 May we lift a Deepsea Chantey such as seamen use at sea?1900 Daily News 9 Apr. 5/1 The British chantey, ‘For he's a jolly good fellow’.1925 D. Garnett Sailor's Return 16 The seaman began a loud and rolling chanty.1955 Times 24 Aug. 7/4 The sea chanty was essentially a working song.attributive.1856 C. Nordhoff Merchant Vessel iv. 40 The foreman is the chanty-man, who sings the song, the gang only joining in the chorus.1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life iv. 41 A chanty gang was engaged to hoist out the cargo.1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life iv. 44 The chanty men wanted biscuit.1890 W. E. Henley Views & Rev.: Lit. 153 The melancholy song of the chanty-men.1906 Temple Bar Jan. 60 The Chantyman. The Crimee war is over now. The Sailors. Sebastopol is taken. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shantyadj. Forms: 1600s shante, shauntee, 1800s shantee, shaunty, shawnty, 1700s– shanty. Etymology: < French gentil /ʒɑ̃ti/: see genteel adj., n., and adv., jaunty adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshanty. Obsolete exc. dialect. Showy, smart. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart gallantc1420 galliard1513 fine1526 trickly1580 pink1598 genteel1601 sparkful1605 sparkish1657 jaunty1662 spankinga1666 shanty1685 trig1725 smartish1738 distinguished1748 nobby1788 dashing1801 vaudy1805 swell1810 distingué1813 dashy1822 nutty1823 chic1832 slicked1836 flash1838 rakish1840 spiffy1853 smart1860 sassy1861 classy1870 spiffing1872 toffish1873 tony1877 swish1879 hep1899 toffy1901 hip1904 toppy1905 in1906 floozy1911 swank1913 jazz1917 ritzy1919 smooth1920 snappy1925 snazzy1931 groovy1937 what ho1937 gussy1940 criss1954 high camp1954 sprauncy1957 James Bondish1966 James Bond1967 schmick1972 designer1978 atas1993 as fine as fivepence- 1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice Epil. Each Shante Spark, that can the Fashion hit. ?c1730 J. Haynes Dorsetshire Vocab. in Notes & Queries (1883) 21 July 45/1 Shanty-man, genteel man. 1737 R. Drury Rival Milliners ii. xiii Where is the gay, engaging, shanty Mien? a1800 J. Warton Fashion 79 'Tis thine for sleeves to teach the shantiest cuts. 1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. in Archaeologia 17 157 Shantee, or Shanty, gay, showy. 1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Shanty, smart, flanting. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Shaunty, showy, flashy, affecting to be tasteful in apparel or ornament. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). shantyv. Brit. /ˈʃanti/, U.S. /ˈʃæn(t)i/ Etymology: < shanty n.¹ 1. intransitive. To live in a shanty or temporary log hut. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in or as in other buildings cabin1586 den1610 stable1651 hut1691 templea1711 bog-trota1734 sty1748 village1819 shanty1840 shack1895 flat1966 1840 C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer I. v. 97 You see..the comfort to a man—who shanties out as much as I do—of having a home all fixed and ready for you. 1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 197 (Bartlett 1860) Mark Shuff and a friend of his, who were trapping, shantied on the outlet, just at the foot of Tupper's Lake. 2. Australian. ‘To visit a grog-shanty habitually; drink frequently or habitually at a public-house’ ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink habitually > in public house shanty1888 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms iii I was put out at his laying it down so about the Dalys and us shantying and gaffing. Derivatives ˈshantying n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [noun] > a log cabin shantying1824 1824 Canadian Mag. 3 202 Such is the usual routine of what is called Shantying in Canada. 1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 212 (Bartlett 1860) When we got back to our shantying ground we were tuckered out, as you may believe. 1926 F. Rickaby Ballads & Songs of Shanty-boy 47 Shantying I'll give o'er when I'm landed safe on shore, And I'll lead a different life. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹1820n.²1856adj.1685v.1824
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