shanty
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Canadian French chantier (“lumberjack's headquarters”). An alternative theory that the word derives from Irish seantí (meaning "old house") is not considered likely by lexicologists.
* (unlicensed pub): New Zealand from 1848.
Inflected forms:
form: shanties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shanties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shantying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shantied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shantied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A roughly-built hut or cabin.
pos: noun
examples: A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.
1965 January, Stuart James, Angling′s New Gadgets, Popular Mechanics, page 224,
The ice fishing shanty is not a necessity, but it does add to the comfort. A shanty can be any size or shape, four pieces of plywood banged together with a plywood roof, or as elaborate as one I was told about by a Minneapolis fisherman that has four rooms with gas heat and wall-to-wall carpeting.
1999 January, Lawrence Pyne, In Vermont: Rental Shanties Give Hassle-Free Ice-Fishing, Field & Stream, page 78,
The solution is to use ice-fishing shacks, called shanties on Champlain. Every winter, veritable shanty towns spring up as safe ice develops, and their snug occupants harvest fresh meals of perch, pike, walleye, salmon, trout, and smelt without first being flash-frozen themselves.
Shanties are the most interesting and original of early housing in the Adirondacks.[…]Bark for roofs and even walls on occasion seems to be an attribute of the shanty. Large shanties at staging grounds in the woods included bunkhouses holding one to three dozen men, so not all shanties were small.
gloss: A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
pos: noun
examples: Shanties along canal banks and road reserves have emerged since independence in 1948 onwards, and consist of unauthorized and improvised shelter without legal rights of occupancy of the land and structures.
A few governments recognise the shanties as a form of self-help housing that places very little burden upon government funds. Such governments sometimes encourage shanty development by providing water, electricity and garbage collection services.
In the hard times of the 1930s, shanty boats along the Ohio River′s banks were home to many families, who felt fortunate to have a roof over their heads even if it was not on dry land.
gloss: An unlicensed pub.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: The shanty-keeper is not, as a rule, a bachelor.
gloss: Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
pos: adj
tags: US
derogatory
not-comparable
examples: That neighborhood is full of shanty Irishmen.
The Irish of the middle class were trying to live down the opprobrium derived from the brawling, hard-drinking, and raffish manners of the “shanty Irish” of an earlier generation. The shanty Irish might in some instances have been the individual′s own grandmother who did, indeed, smoke a clay pipe and keep a goat in what, forty years later, became Central Park. Or shanty Irish might be those fellow Irish who at the turn of the century still lived in slums and were poor, hard-drinking, and contentious.
gloss: To inhabit a shanty.
pos: verb
examples: we came down the Alleghany in two canoes , and shantied on the Ohio
Derived words: Big Shanty
claim shanty
grog shanty
shanty back
shanty boy
shanty-keeper
shantylike
shantyman
shanty town
shantytown
sugar shanty
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