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row-de-dow|raʊdɪˈdaʊ| [Echoic: cf. row n.2 and row-dow-dow.] Noise or din, uproar, disturbance. Also attrib.
1790R. Tyler Contrast iii. i. 42 There was a soldier fellow, who talked about his row de dow, dow, and courted a young woman. 1832Deb. Congress U.S. 13 Mar. (1833) 2128 The rub-a-dub and row-de-dow excitement. 1848Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. Poems 1890 II. 102 Let 'lone the rowdedow it saves To hev a wal-broke precedunt. 1885Referee 8 Mar. 5/1 With regard to the Prince and Princess's visit to Ireland, the ‘row-de-dow’—that is, we believe, the Hibernian term for it—which took place [etc.]. 1887Scottish Leader 19 Oct. 4 He seems to have braced himself for a superior effort in his favourite row-de-dow line. So row-de-ˈdowing vbl. n.
1832Lady Granville Lett. (1894) II. 130, I think there will be a great row-de-dowing amongst them all. |