shanty-boy

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a man who lived and worked in a shanty (def. 2a).

See: shanty ((n.))(def. 2a),shantyman(def. 1)

Quotations

1850, 1960

. . . Give the shanty boys whiskey and nothing goes wrong.

1912

Luke Hanley and his companions . . . chatted for a time with "shanty-boys" met during former winters in the woods. . . .

1963

Thus the shantyboys preserved and spread folk songs of many types. . . .