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n. A roughly built, often ramshackle cabin; a shack.

n. Variant of chantey.

n. A roughly-built hut or cabin.

n. A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.

n. An unlicenced pub.

adj. Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.

v. To inhabit a shanty.

n. A sailor′s work song.

adj. Jaunty; showy.

n. A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.

verb-intransitive. To inhabit a shanty.

Jaunty; gay; showy.

n. A hut or mean dwelling; a temporary building of rough and flimsy character, Compare boist.

n. A public house, or place where liquor is sold.

To live in a shanty, as lumbermen do: common in Manitoba and the lumber regions of North America.

n. A song with a boisterous chorus, sung by sailors while heaving at the capstan or windlass or hoisting up heavy weights, to enable them to pull or heave together in time with the song.

To visit the grog-shanty habitually; drink frequently or habitually at a public-house.

n. a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

n. small crude shelter used as a dwelling

"Father would disapprove of his daughter settling for what he called a shanty Irish beau."

work song   

sly grog-shanty   

shanty town   

jaunty    showy    hut    house   

Auntie    Chianti    Santy    ante    anti    auntie    canty    chianti    panty    scanty   

shack    hovel    dwelling    hut    farmhouse    tenement    barn    shed    cot    schoolhouse