shindy
Americannoun
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a row; rumpus.
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a shindig.
noun
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a quarrel or commotion (esp in the phrase kick up a shindy )
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another word for shindig
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of shindy
1810–20; variant of obsolete shinty row, originally, game resembling field hockey, shinny 1
Example Sentences
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The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last, raising his voice above the shindy, the whimsical sheriff succeeded in obtaining something like silence.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram
I recollect another shindy I had when attending the traps.
From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by Drayson, A.W.
But the la’ndress has grown that sassy they had a reg’lar shindy this mornin’.
From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.
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