shindy

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “"Well, from what I hear," Dr. Buckie went on, complacently, "there'll be more shindies. So look out!"”

2. (countable, slang, uncountable)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."”

   “I always do sit with my hands in my pockets except when I am in the company of my sisters, my cousins, or my aunts; and they kick up such a shindy—I should say expostulate so eloquently upon the subject—that I have to give in and take them out—my hands I mean.”

   “[…] it was like a Catholic priest striking peace in an Irish shindy.”

   “"It's this way, mate," he said. "You know there was a bit of a shindy up at the university yesterday morning - maybe you was there?" I told him I'd seen it.”

   “More severe injuries were sustained by a young man who received two stab wounds in the chest from a woman's umbrella. One of the lighter moments was related by an unidentified witness whose glass eye fell or was torn out in the hostilities. As he later searched the gutter for his hand made optic, a woman approached and handed it back to him none the worse, saying it had found its way down her cleavage in the shindy.”

3. (countable, uncountable)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.”

4. (US, countable, dated, dialectal, uncountable)A fancy or liking.

   “"Father took a wonderful shindy to her, for even old men can't help liking beauty. […]"”