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bach
English
Etymology
Probable shortening of bachelor.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /bæt?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /bat?/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /b?t?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
- Homophone: batch
Noun
bach (plural baches)
- (New Zealand, northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.
Synonyms
- crib (New Zealand)
Translations
Verb
bach (third-person singular simple present baches, present participle baching, simple past and past participle bached)
- (US) To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.)
Anagrams
- BHCA
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba??/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic *b?x, from Proto-Celtic *bikkos.
Adjective
bach (feminine singular bach, plural bach, equative lleied, comparative llai, superlative lleiaf)
- small, little, short
- not fully-grown or developed, young
- insignificant, unimportant, humble
- small (of business, etc.)
- lowercase (of letter)
Derived terms
- to bach (“circumflex”)
- t? bach (“toilet, loo”)
Synonyms
- bychan
Etymology 2
From Old Welsh bach, from Proto-Celtic *bakkos, from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.
Noun
bach m or f (plural bachau)
- hook
- bend, corner
- hinge
- bracket
Derived terms
- bach cyrliog
- bach petryal
Mutation
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “bach”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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shanty
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ænti/
- Rhymes: -ænti
Etymology 1
From Canadian French chantier (“lumberjack's headquarters”). An alternative theory that the word derives from Irish seantí (meaning "of an old house") is not considered likely by lexicologists.
- (unlicensed pub): New Zealand from 1848.
Noun
shanty (plural shanties)
- A roughly-built hut or cabin.
- Synonym: shack
- 1965 January, Stuart James, Angling?s New Gadgets, Popular Mechanics, 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.
- 1999 January, Lawrence Pyne, In Vermont: Rental Shanties Give Hassle-Free Ice-Fishing, Field & Stream, 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.
- 2000, Craig A. Gilborn, Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950, 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.
- 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, 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.
- 2005, Stephen Codrington, Planet Geography, 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.
- 2009, James E. Casto, The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937, 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.
- 2003, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003, page 208,
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
- Synonym: speakeasy
- 1881, Henry W. Nesfield, A Chequered Career; Or, Fifteen years in Australia and New Zealand, page 351,
- The shanty-keeper is not, as a rule, a bachelor.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
shanty (not comparable)
- (US, derogatory) Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
- 1963, William V. Shannon,
- 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.
- 1963, William V. Shannon,
Usage notes
Applied to poor Irish immigrants, from the mid-1800s.
Verb
shanty (third-person singular simple present shanties, present participle shantying, simple past and past participle shantied)
- To inhabit a shanty.
- 1857, Samuel H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
- we came down the Alleghany in two canoes , and shantied on the Ohio
- 1857, Samuel H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod
Etymology 2
From French chantez, imperative of chanter (“to sing”).
Noun
shanty (plural shanties)
- A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work.
- Synonym: sea shanty
- Hypernym: 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, 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.
- 1997, Jan Ling, A History of European Folk Music, 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.).
Alternative forms
- shantey, chanty, chantey
Translations
Etymology 3
Adjective
shanty (comparative more shanty, superlative most shanty)
- Jaunty; showy.
References
- shanty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- shanty at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English shanty.
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /???n.ti/, /???n.ti/
- (Belgium) IPA(key): /???n.ti/
- Hyphenation: shan?ty
Noun
shanty m (plural shanty's or shanties)
- A shanty, a sailing song.
Derived terms
- shantykoor
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