Shanty

a.

Jaunty; showy. [Prov. Eng.]

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.

Shan·ty
v. i.

To inhabit a shanty. S. H. Hammond.

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noun

An ugly, squalid dwelling: hole, hovel, hut, shack. See good/bad, rich/poor.

Origin: 1820

There is a French word chantier meaning "a stand or place," and an Irish word sean-tig meaning "a hut." Maybe one of those is the ancestor of shanty. Whatever the case, we find shanty in our American English in 1820 in a journal kept by one Zerah Hawley as he traveled in Ohio. He observed people who "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."

After that, shanties show up all over the landscape. A shanty appears in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie in 1827 and in a story of Davy Crockett's exploits in Texas in 1836: "When we entered the shantee, Job was busy dealing out his rum." George Ruxton wrote in 1847 of touring the Rocky Mountains: "Scattered about were tents and shanties of logs and branches of every conceivable form." And there was also the shanty family (1872), a family living in a shanty; shanty cake (1846), eaten by those who lived in shanties; and shanty villages (1858) and shanty towns (1888).

Sometimes a shanty was a Log Cabin (1770). But whereas the log cabin gradually gained in sentimental and political value as the birthplace of sturdy pioneers, the shanty was always mean and disreputable, at best the next best thing to no shelter at all. Nobody boasted of being born in one.

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A song with chorus sung by sailors as an aid to work on a ship. The earliest references to sailors songs date from the 16th century, but most shanties known today (such as Blow the Man Down, Rio Grande and A-rovin′) are of 19th-century origin, while the term itself is even more recent.

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1. A hut, usually of wood; a small structure of rough character.
2. A temporary building on a construction site used for storage or as a contractor’s office.

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IN BRIEF: A rundown cabin, ramshackle shack.

The little pine shanty on the corner lot served as a secret club for the kids.

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - skur, hytte

idioms:

• shanty town    forstad med blikskure, slumkvarter

2.
n. - en sømandssang

Nederlands (Dutch)
krotwoning, bouwval, hut, keet

Français (French)
1.
n. - baraque, taudis, masure, cabane

idioms:

• shanty town    bidonville

2.
n. - chanson avec solo et ch¯ur en alternance

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Hütte

idioms:

• shanty town    Elendsviertel

2.
n. - Seemannslied

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (πρόχειρη) παράγκα, (Αυστρ.) καπηλειό, (ναυτ.) τραγούδι του μπάρκου

idioms:

• shanty town    παραγκούπολη

Italiano (Italian)
catapecchia, capanna

idioms:

• shanty town    baraccopoli

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cabana (f), barraca (f), taverna (f)

idioms:

• shanty town    bairro de barracas

Русский (Russian)
хижина, хоровая рабочая песня, жить в лачуге

idioms:

• shanty town    барачный поселок

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - tugurio, chabola, choza, rancho

idioms:

• shanty town    barrio de las latas, villa miseria

2.
n. - canción alternando solo y coro

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skjul, kåk, hydda, shanty (sjömanssång)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 简陋的小屋

idioms:

• shanty town    棚户区, 贫民窟

2. 劳动工作歌

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 勞動工作歌

2.
n. - 簡陋的小屋

idioms:

• shanty town    棚戶區, 貧民窟

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 오두막집, 선술집, 얻어맞아 멍든 눈두덩

2.
n. - (선원의) 뱃노래

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 小屋, あばら屋, 船歌

idioms:

• shanty town    貧民くつ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كوخ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צריף, בקתה‬
n. - ‮שיר ליחיד ולמקהלה שהתפתח משיר ימאים‬

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