chantey
Americannoun
plural
chanteysnoun
Example Sentences
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And you can bet we’ll be singing a sea chantey in his honor when it happens.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
In Week 1420, prompted by the TikTok sea chantey craze, we asked for songs about a particular job, or to work by.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2021
The way he punches certain words gives his speech the inexhaustible quality of a sea chantey.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018
Also Eddie Vedder’s pro-Cubs sea chantey is fantastic.
From Golf Digest • Oct. 1, 2018
Just thinking about it prompted Penelope to start humming the wordless little sea chantey that Simon had been whistling earlier.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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