Shack vs Shanty - What's the difference?
shack | shanty | Synonyms |
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=6 Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
(obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
(obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
(obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack .
* 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC11859773&id=rI0iE-yqyAMC&q=%22right+to+shack%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3D%2522right%2Bto%2Bshack%2522&pgis=1]
* 1996, J M Neeson, Commoners [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA]
(UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
* Henry Ward Beecher
(obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
(obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
* 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC11859773&id=rI0iE-yqyAMC&q=%22right+to+shack%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3D%2522right%2Bto%2Bshack%2522&pgis=1]
(UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
A roughly-built hut or cabin.
*
, title= * 1965 January, Stuart James, Angling?s New Gadgets'', ''(Popular Mechanics) ,
* 1999' January, Lawrence Pyne, ''In Vermont: Rental '''Shanties Give Hassle-Free Ice-Fishing'', '' ,
* 2000 , Craig A. Gilborn, Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 ,
A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
* 2003 , (United Nations Human Settlements Programme), The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 ,
* 2005 , Stephen Codrington, Planet Geography ,
* 2009 , James E. Casto, The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 ,
(Australia, New Zealand) An unlicenced pub.
* 1881 , Henry W. Nesfield, A Chequered Career; Or, Fifteen years in Australia and New Zealand ,
(US, pejorative) Living in shanties ; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
* 1963 , William V. Shannon,
To inhabit a shanty.
A sailor?s work song.
* 1979', Stan Hugill, '''''Shanties from the Seven Seas: Shipboard Work-songs and Songs Used as Work-songs from the Great Days of Sail ,
* 1997 , Jan Ling, A History of European Folk Music ,
Shanty is a synonym of shack.
As nouns the difference between shack and shanty
is that shack is a crude, roughly built hut or cabin while shanty is a roughly-built hut or cabin.As verbs the difference between shack and shanty
is that shack is to live in or with; to shack up while shanty is to inhabit a shanty.As an adjective shanty is
living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.shack
English
(wikipedia shack)Etymology 1
Some authorities derive this word from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
Etymology 2
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare (etyl) .Noun
(-)- [...] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
- The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack .
- (Forby)
- All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
Derived terms
* common of shackVerb
(en verb)- (Grose)
- first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
Anagrams
*References
shanty
English
Etymology 1
From . * (unlicenced pub) New Zealand from 1848.Noun
(shanties)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
page 224,
- The ice fishing shanty' is not a necessity, but it does add to the comfort. A ' shanty can be any size or shape, four pieces of plywood banged together with a plywood roof, or as elaborate as one I was told about by a Minneapolis fisherman that has four rooms with gas heat and wall-to-wall carpeting.
page 78,
- The solution is to use ice-fishing shacks, called shanties' on Champlain. Every winter, veritable ' shanty towns spring up as safe ice develops, and their snug occupants harvest fresh meals of perch, pike, walleye, salmon, trout, and smelt without first being flash-frozen themselves.
page 51,
- Shanties' are the most interesting and original of early housing in the Adirondacks.Bark for roofs and even walls on occasion seems to be an attribute of the '''shanty'''. Large '''shanties''' at staging grounds in the woods included bunkhouses holding one to three dozen men, so not all ' shanties were small.
page 208,
- Shanties along canal banks and road reserves have emerged since independence in 1948 onwards, and consist of unauthorized and improvised shelter without legal rights of occupancy of the land and structures.
page 481,
- A few governments recognise the shanties' as a form of self-help housing that places very little burden upon government funds. Such governments sometimes encourage ' shanty development by providing water, electricity and garbage collection services.
page 83,
- In the hard times of the 1930s, shanty boats along the Ohio River?s banks were home to many families, who felt fortunate to have a roof over their heads even if it was not on dry land.
page 351,
- The shanty -keeper is not, as a rule, a bachelor.
Synonyms
* (roughly built hut or cabin) shack * (rudimentary dwelling) * (unlicenced pub) speakeasyDerived terms
* grog shanty * shanty back * shanty-keeper * shanty townAdjective
(-)- That neighborhood is full of shanty Irishmen.
- The Irish of the middle class were trying to live down the opprobrium derived from the brawling, hard-drinking, and raffish manners of the “shanty' Irish” of an earlier generation. The '''shanty''' Irish might in some instances have been the individual?s own grandmother who did, indeed, smoke a clay pipe and keep a goat in what, foty years later, became Central Park. Or ' shanty Irish might be those fellow Irish who at the turn of the century still lived in slums and were poor, hard-drinking, and contentious.
Usage notes
Applied to poor Irish immigrants, from the mid-1800s.Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) chantez, imperative of .Noun
(shanties)page 192,
- A Scot called Macmillan, a man holding a master's square-rig ticket, gave me a portion of a shanty related in tune to the foregoing, and also to the British Rolling Home .
page 41,
- Today, shanties' are a special feature of the folk music movement. The first International '''Shanty''' Festival, '''Shanty''' ?87, was held in 1987 in Krakow, Poland, with Stan Hugill, the “godfather of the '''shanty''',” in attendance (see ''Folk Roots'', September 1987, No. 51, “Hugill-Mania! Stan Hugill Godfather of the ' Shanty Mafia, Goes to Poland,” p.33ff.).