different between crib vs shanty

English

Etymology

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-Germanic *kribj? (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gerb?- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian creb (“crib”), West Frisian krêbe (“crib”), Dutch krib (“crib, manger”), German Krippe (“rack, crib”), Danish krybbe (“crib”), Icelandic krubba (“crib”). Doublet of crèche. The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of the verb.

The criminal sense may derive from the 'basket' sense, circa the mid 18th century, in that a poacher could conceal poachings in such a basket (see the 1772 Samuel Foote quotation). The cheating sense probably derives from the criminal sense.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?b, IPA^(key): /k??b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

crib (countable and uncountable, plural cribs)

1. (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

   Synonym: cot (British and Southern Hemisphere)
2. (Britain) A bed for a child older than a baby.
   • 1848, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.

     a day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was -- dead.

3. (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
4. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
5. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
6. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
7. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
8. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
   • Proverbs 14:4

     Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

9. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
10. (obsolete) A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
    • 1893,— Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk”.

      but if I have lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnny I have been.

11. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
12. (slang) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
13. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
14. (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
15. (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
16. (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
    • 1913 D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers.

      “May we play crib, Mrs. Radford?” he asked.

17. (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
18. (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
19. (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

    Synonym: bach (northern New Zealand)

20. (Australia, New Zealand) A packed lunch taken to work.
21. (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
22. (Britain, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
23. (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

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Translations

Verb

crib (third-person singular simple present cribs, present participle cribbing, simple past and past participle cribbed)

1. (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
2. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
   • I. Taylor

     if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
3. (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.

4. (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
5. (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
7. (India) To complain, to grumble
8. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
9. (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

Derived terms

• cribber
• crib sheet

Translations

References

Anagrams

• BRIC, CBIR

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)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. (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.

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Translations

Adjective

shanty (not comparable)

1. (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.

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)

1. 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

Etymology 2

From French chantez, imperative of chanter (“to sing”).

Noun

shanty (plural shanties)

2. 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)

1. 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)

1. A shanty, a sailing song.

Derived terms

• shantykoor