shantying

Alistair Beaton's script is not so much a play as a series of sketches; Anthony Neilson's production is remorselessly larky, with lots of arch posturing and yo-ho-ho shantying.

Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carré 2010

He had been working his farm for a spell and had gone back reluctantly to shantying because he needed the money in a slack season.

Children of the Tenements 1881

But I was put out at his laying it down so about the Dalys and us shantying and gaffing, and I do think now that some folks are born so as they can't do without

Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

But I was put out at his laying it down so about the Dalys and us shantying and gaffing, and I do think now that some folks are born so as they can’t do without a taste of some sort of fun once in a way.

Robbery Under Arms 2004