shanty

noun, plural shan·ties.

1. a crudely built hut, cabin, or house.

adjective

2. of, relating to, or constituting a shanty or shanties: a shanty quarter outside the town walls.
3. of a low economic or social class, especially when living in a shanty: shanty people.

verb (used without object), shan·tied, shan·ty·ing.

4. to inhabit a shanty.

noun, plural shan·ties.

1. chantey.

noun, plural chant·eys.

1. a sailors’ song, especially one sung in rhythm to work.

noun plural -ties

1. a ramshackle hut; crude dwelling
2. Australian and NZ a public house, esp an unlicensed one
3. (formerly, in Canada)
   1. a log bunkhouse at a lumber camp
   2. the camp itself

noun plural -ties or -teys

1. a song originally sung by sailors, esp a rhythmic one forming an accompaniment to work

noun plural -teys

1. the usual US spelling of shanty 2

n.1“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). n.2“sea song,” 1867, alternative spelling of chanty (n.).