shanty

shanty
I. variant of chantey II. noun (plural shanties) Etymology: probably from Canadian French chantier lumber camp, hut, from French, builder's yard, ways, support for barrels, from Old French chantier, gantier support — more at gantry Date: 1820 a small crudely built dwelling or shelter usually of wood

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  • Shanty — may refer to:* Ice shanty, a portable shed placed on a frozen lake * Sea shanty, shipboard working songs * Shanty Hogan (1906 1967), Major League Baseball catcher * Shanty town, unit of irregular, low cost dwellingsee also* Shanty Bay * Shanty… …   Wikipedia

  • shanty — Ⅰ. shanty [1] ► NOUN (pl. shanties) ▪ a small, crudely built shack. ORIGIN perhaps from Canadian French chantier lumberjack s cabin, logging camp . Ⅱ. shanty [2] (also chanty or sea sha …   English terms dictionary

  • Shanty — Shan ty, v. i. To inhabit a shanty. S. H. Hammond. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Shanty — Smn Seemannslied per. Wortschatz grupp. (19. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. shanty, das zurückgeführt wird auf frz. chanter singen , dieses aus l. cantāre, einem Intensivum zu l. canere singen, tönen .    Ebenso nnorw. sjanti; Chanson.… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • Shanty — Shan ty, a. Jaunty; showy. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Shanty — Shan ty, n.;pl. {Shanties}. [Said to be fr. Ir. sean old + tig. a house.] A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shanty — (izg. šènti) m DEFINICIJA glazb. pjesma engleskih i američkih mornara iz doba jedrenjaka; pjevala se i pri teškim radovima ETIMOLOGIJA engl …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • shanty — [n] shack cabin, camp, cottage, hut, lean to, shed, shelter, small house, tiny house; concept 516 …   New thesaurus

  • shanty — ☆ shanty1 [shan′tē ] n. pl. shanties [< CdnFr chantier, workshop, applied to lumberers living quarters < OFr: see GANTRY] a small, shabby dwelling; shack; hut shanty2 [shan′tē, shän′tē] n. pl. shanties var. of CHANTEY …   English World dictionary

  • Shanty — Ein Shanty (der ursprünglichen Herkunft nach wurden die Hütten der Sklaven im Süden der USA „shanties“ genannt; englisch auch chanty – aus dem Französischen: chanter = singen) ist ein Seemannslied. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Geschichte 2 Shanty Chöre… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • shanty — shanty1 shantylike, adj. /shan tee/, n., pl. shanties, adj., v., shantied, shantying. n. 1. a crudely built hut, cabin, or house. adj. 2. of, pertaining to, or constituting a shanty or shanties: a shanty quarter outside the town walls. 3. of a… …   Universalium

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