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
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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
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 Strang, Herbert
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
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
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 Lever, Charles James
What shindies you used to have with her, Lady Kicklebury!
From The Wolves and the Lamb by Thackeray, William Makepeace
It is getting a big bore, When, with tempers hot as Indies, Heroes smash each other's windies, Pursuing of their shindies about Afric's shore.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various
"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 Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)
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 Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston
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