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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