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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shanty
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
town
▪ They work in the central and usually wealthy areas; people in the shanty towns do without.
▪ This was answered inpart by a number of small-scale entrepreneurs operating in the shanty towns.
▪ Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
▪ Last week five graves under unmarked crosses were unearthed on the shanty town outskirts of Lima.
▪ Often referred to as shanty towns, these make-shift settlements now house one-third to one-half of the population of many cities.
▪ Migrant families have brought the tradition with them to the urban shanty towns.
▪ The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
▪ Up in the shanty towns subversion ruled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
▪ He had visited shanty settlements known as fa las owing to their resemblance, at a distance, to honeycombs.
▪ Migrant families have brought the tradition with them to the urban shanty towns.
▪ On the far side of the pond the shanties started, the lowest-lying cluster surrounded by water, flooded.
▪ The gang warfare ripping through the shanties is fuelled by what has replaced politics after Aristide: prostitution, drugs and ritual.
▪ The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
▪ This was answered inpart by a number of small-scale entrepreneurs operating in the shanty towns.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shanty

Shanty \Shan"ty\, a. Jaunty; showy. [Prov. Eng.]

Shanty

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.

Shanty

Shanty \Shan"ty\, v. i. To inhabit a shanty.
--S. H. Hammond.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shanty

"rough cabin," 1820, from Canadian French chantier "lumberjack's headquarters," in French, "timberyard, dock," from Old French chantier "gantry," from Latin cantherius "rafter, frame" (see gantry). Shanty Irish in reference to the Irish underclass in the U.S., is from 1928 (title of a book by Jim Tully).

shanty

"sea song," 1867, alternative spelling of chanty (n.).

Wiktionary
shanty

Etymology 1

  1. (context US pejorative English) Living in '''shanties'''; poor, ill-mannered and violent. n. A roughly-built hut or cabin. v

  2. To inhabit a shanty. Etymology 2

    n. A sailor′s work song. Etymology 3

    a. jaunty; showy

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WordNet
shanty

  1. n. small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel, hut, hutch, shack]

  2. a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors [syn: chantey, chanty, sea chantey]

Wikipedia
Shanty

Shanty may refer to:

  • Ice shanty, a portable shed placed on a frozen lake
  • Sea shanty, a type of shipboard work-song
  • Shanty, an irregular, low-cost dwelling which, in quantity, form a shanty town
  • Shanty Hogan (1906–1967), Major League Baseball catcher
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Usage examples of "shanty".

Tightly as he had nailed and battened the tar-paper to the shanty, blizzard winds had torn it loose and whipped it to shreds, letting in the snow at sides and roof.

Into San Marcial the unbeautiful, with its vista of unpainted shanties and lurid dives.

But in 1920 the road to Menin slowly re-emerged, followed by the shanties of the first returning refugees.

We started in to make ourselves comfortable, as at Millen, by building shanties.

Honolulu with its high-powered, missionary-owned bank buildings and its shanty Japanese-language movie just off Aala Park, a polygenetic blend nobody, least of all Violet, could encompass.

The river was fuller than Yama remembered it, lapping at the margin of the city, covering the shore where in the near future there would be wide mud flats and a scurf of shanty towns.

They knew how to cut, brace and move it, yet lived in unmortared, poorly chinked shanties.

White Hart, in Bloomsbury, to rickety, fire-trap shanties in Angolan boom towns.

And behind the house was the chicken coop, a miniature of its shanty self, where conceited hens stalked complacently about peering beadily this way and that, crooning their smug song of the Sacred Vessel, and squirting their droppings in the grass with the righteousness of saints.

The windows on the other side of the shanty enabled him to see that there were two rows of berths, each backing against the other.

Also, he had been in a shearing-shed and in a shanty orgy with One-eyed Bogan, and knew the man.

Imagine in the middle of a garden at home coming on a cowhouse or a shanty!

Dodge truck that Beta RAM drove down into Las Cruces was so battered it almost looked as if someone had stuck four bald tires on one of the Camp Earth shanties and pushed it down the hill.

He was snoring in a back room, and, like a man in the deadhouse of a bush shanty, not likely to wake before sunrise.

Chloe was on the front steps of the Sea Shanty, sweeping away the eelgrass that the storm had brought to their door.