shindy

American

[shin-dee] / ˈʃɪn di /

noun

Informal.

plural

shindies

a row; rumpus.
a shindig.

shindy British

/ ˈʃɪndɪ /

noun

a quarrel or commotion (esp in the phrase kick up a shindy )
another word for shindig

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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

How shall I make my poor Voice heard ’Midst this brute shindy, brainless, mad?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 by Various

If he comes when the Wakes are on there will be a shindy!...

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

A scout has just come in and tells us the enemy are intrenched about 4 miles off, so that we shall have to-day a shindy of some kind.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

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