shindy
Americannoun
plural
shindies-
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
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
He has such a wonderful knack I am sure he might settle that shindy.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 by Various
Why, not many weeks ago I was in a far tighter place than this last little shindy of ours, and narrowly escaped with my life at the hands of the latter.”
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram
It's claws are showing, and they may want clipping, And shindy in the streets is just a pest; But Law, though lately once or twice found tripping, Won't interfere with the calm Civic nest.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 by Various
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