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shantying

shantying is the present participle and gerund of shanty.

Meaning of shanty

Verb

shanty (third-person singular simple present shanties, present participle shantying, simple past and past participle shantied)

  1. To inhabit a shanty.
    • we came down the Alleghany in two canoes , and shantied on the Ohio1857, Samuel H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod

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Questions about shantying

What is shantying the present participle and gerund of?
Shantying is the present participle and gerund of shanty.

Words near shantying in the dictionary

  1. shanty towns
  2. shanty-keeper
  3. shanty-keepers
  4. shantyboy
  5. shantyboys
  6. shantying
  7. shantylike
  8. shantyman
  9. shantymen
  10. shantytown
  11. shantytowns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shantying (page history and authors); shanty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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