Definitions for shanty

shanty shan·ty

Spelling: [shan-tee]
IPA: /ˈʃæn ti/

Shanty is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in shanty (ahnsty).

Definitions for shanty

noun

  1. a crudely built hut, cabin, or house.
  2. chantey.
  3. a sailors' song, especially one sung in rhythm to work.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or constituting a shanty or shanties:
  2. of a low economic or social class, especially when living in a shanty:

verb (used without object)

  1. to inhabit a shanty.

Origin of shanty

1810-20; probably Canadian French chantier lumber camp, hut; French: yard, depot, gantry, stand for barrels Latin cant(h)ērius rafter, prop, literally, horse in poor condition, nag Greek kant

Examples for shanty

Finally, it was discovered that the shanty was far too small a place for our banquet.

He returned with intelligence that set our shanty in a ferment.

And then followed visions of the increased comfort to come to the shanty.

She is the idyll of our shanty, and our regard for her approaches to idolatry.

And now to revert more particularly to our home life in the shanty.

And then we were occupied with the erection of the shanty, as already described.

I brought out my relic of other days, and displayed it to the boys in the shanty.

Would anybody have belaved it when we come with nothin' to the shanty?

Our shanty is the habitation of some half-dozen of us, year out and year in.

There must be a mistress in a house that is to be a house, and not a—well, shanty, let us say.

Word Value for shanty
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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