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
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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Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
Would you believe it, sorr, the very next day after you were gone, Imbono's men and Mboyo's men began to quarrel; 'twas Orange and Green, sorr, and a fine shindy.
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert
It is the granddaughter's birthday, and there was a regular shindy about who was going to be asked.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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