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
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
I recollect another shindy I had when attending the traps.
From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by A.W. Drayson
Most up to the boss in a shindy, now, wasn’t she?
From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas
This shindy must be stopped, or 'twill, I fear, Demoralise the pack!
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various
Our dress was costly; not that it had much lace and gold on it, but that, what between falling on the road at night, shindies at mess, and other devilment, a coat lasted no time.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever
What shindies you used to have with her, Lady Kicklebury!
From The Wolves and the Lamb by William Makepeace Thackeray
He gathered from the papers that writers, painters, musicians, were holding shindies almost every night, at which delightful rebels, too busy to occupy themselves with actual creation, talked charmingly about their plans.
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
He also scented some rare shindies in the game Yaspard was playing, and Harry, seeing that the situation was an awkward one, agreed.
From Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
"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
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