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shindys

shindys is the plural of shindy.

Meaning of shindy

Noun

shindy (countable and uncountable, plural shindies or shindys)

  1. A shindig.
    • She and Eileen are giving a shindy for Gladys—that's Gerald's new acquisition, you know. So if you don't mind butting into a baby-show we'll run down.1907, Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set, New York: D. Appleton & Co.
  2. (slang) An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.
    • "[…] I've married her. And I know there will be an awful shindy at home."1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “LXXIII”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850...
  3. hockey; shinney
    • […] what is even more disgusting still, I have seen children playing at "shindy" in a Churchyard, a skull used as a substitute for a ball, and large fragments of leg or arm-bones in the place of sticks.1841, anonymous author, The Living and the Dead: A Letter to the People of England, on the State of their Churchyards, London: Whittaker & Co., page 31
  4. (US, dated, dialectal) A fancy or liking.
    • "Father took a wonderful shindy to her, for even old men can't help liking beauty. […]"1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, chapter V, in Nature and Human Nature

Questions about shindys

What is shindys the plural of?
Shindys is the plural of shindy.

Words near shindys in the dictionary

  1. shindles
  2. shindling
  3. Shindri
  4. Shindris
  5. shindy
  6. shindys
  7. shine
  8. shine a light on
  9. shine box
  10. shine boxes
  11. shine down on

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