shindy
(ˈʃɪndɪ)
[? Alteration of shinty.]
1. = shinty 1. local.
| 1846 Local Act 9 Vict. c. 29 §41 In case any Person or Persons shall on Shrove Tuesday..play at..Shindy, Football, or any other Game. 1860 Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 3), Shindy,..The proper and more usual name is Bandy. 1882 Lancs. Gloss. |
2. A spree, merrymaking. Also, ‘a kind of dance among seamen’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867). slang.
| 1821 Egan Life in London x. (1869) 248 The Jack Tar is quite pleased with his night's cruise, and is continually singing out, ‘What a prime Shindy, my Messmates.’ 1848 in Col. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 286 All in commotion with the expected grand ‘shindy’ on Monday. 1866 Ballantyne Shifting Winds xxv, I want a dance at a wedding, or a shindy of some sort, before setting sail. |
3. A row, commotion, ‘shine’. Phr. to cut shindies (U.S.), to kick up a shindy.
| 1829 B. Hall Trav. N. Amer. III. 325, I never saw a more complete row, or as a fellow near me called it, ‘a more regular shindy’. 1841 Sporting Rev. July 52 The docket of bankruptcy..created, as our polite continental neighbours call it, ‘a sensation’, or, in downright English, ‘a shindy’. a 1845 Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. Hermann, He..Joins..in kicking up all sorts of shindies and bobberies. 1850 ‘Dow, Jr.’ Serm. (Bartlett 1859), You..are..poor, and, therefore, ought to be careful how you cut shindies under the broadsword of justice. 1850 Smedley F. Fairlegh i, A chair being the favourite projectile in the event of a shindy. 1882 B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. ix. 189 He and his wife have had no end of a shindy. 1889 [see kick v.1 9 a]. 1903 Somerville & ‘Ross’ All on Irish Shore vii. 177 There was a frightful shindy, Carew wanting to have his blood, and all the rest of us trying to prevent a row. 1910 Meredith in Fortn. Rev. June 1055 Irishmen..never satisfied, thirsting for a shindy. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin vii. 115 If you want to kick up a shindy, Mister Parkin, you'd best do it outside. 1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File x. 61 We're not having another Burgess and Maclean shindy, questions in the House and all that. 1976 J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service iv. 53 There was quite a shindy, and there might have been more of it. |
4. A liking, fancy. (Cf. shine n.2 4.)
| 1855 Haliburton Nat. & Hum. Nat. xii, They all wondered how..Paddy had taken such a shindy to me. |