shindy
Americannoun
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shindies
plural
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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
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of shindy
1810–20; variant of obsolete shinty row, originally, game resembling field hockey, shinny 1
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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
Then he struck at him, and there was a shindy.
From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
People I’ve talked with here say it was a dandy shindy while it lasted.
From The Ranchman by Charles Alden Seltzer
Well, the morning after you went there was a rare shindy, as you may imagine, when they found your manger empty.
From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang
They've put up several very nasty little shindies at one place or another.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by John McElroy
"It's always new-comers as stirs up shindies," growled a miner who, having reached the surface a few minutes earlier, formed one of the expectant group.
From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
The people are too deeply interested in football, starting prices, rates, public parks, sliding scales, excursions to Blackpool, and municipal shindies, to concern themselves with organists as such.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
Marks, shindies, prayers and punishments, all flavoured with the leathery stuffiness of time-worn Big Hall....
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Those ten centuries are full of lusty fights, victories, vanquishments, quarrels, peacemaking, shindies big and little, rumpus solemn and ridiculous, clouds of dust, regal dust, political dust, and religious dust—you know the way of it.
From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Sir Hall Caine
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