shantyn.1
/ˈʃanti/, U.S. /ˈʃæn(t)i/ 1. 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.
a. Chiefly U.S. and Canadian. A small, mean, roughly constructed dwelling; a cabin, a hut.
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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.
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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.
c. = Canadian French chantier (see the etymology). See the comb. shanty-gang, -team, shantyman ( Compounds 1 below).
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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’.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1970 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 2 Jan. 15/4 The fire..destroyed some 98 shanty homes.
shanty hovel n.
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1862 E. Dicey Six Months in Federal States (1863) II. 46 Miserable wooden shanty hovels.
shanty shop n.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1902 H. Lawson Children of Bush 240 What damned fools we'd been throwing away our money over shanty bars.
shanty-keeper n.
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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.
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1886 H. C. Kendall Poems 209 He'll..swig at shanty liquors.
C2.
shanty-boat n. a kind of house-boat used by lumbermen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
/ˈʃanti/, U.S. /ˈʃæn(t)i/ A sailor's song, esp. one sung during heavy work.
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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.
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.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.
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shantyadj.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
Showy, smart.
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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.
/ˈʃanti/, U.S. /ˈʃæn(t)i/ 1. intransitive. To live in a shanty or temporary log hut.
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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).
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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.
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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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