Etymology

shanty boy

Today it means: A young lumberjack. Full definition →

Canadian French chantier
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The story

  1. Canadian French · derived fromchantier“lumberjack's headquarters”
  2. English todayshanty boy

From shanty + boy, from Canadian French chantier (“lumberjack's headquarters”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.