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shindig|ˈʃɪndɪg|
Also shin-dig.
[Of uncertain origin: perh. f. shin n. + dig n.1, but infl. by shindy in later senses.]
†1. U.S. (See quot. 1859.) Obs.
[1849: see hoe-down.] 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer., Shin-Dig, a blow on the shins. Southern.
2. A country dance; a party, ball, ‘knees-up’; a lively gathering of any kind. Also fig. orig. U.S.
1871B. Harte in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 373/1 ‘Is this a dashed Puritan meeting?’.. ‘It's no Pike County shindig.’ 1892Kentucky Words in Amer. Dial. Notes I. 231 Shindig, a dance or party. 1899Westm. Gaz. 31 Oct. 8/3 The natives..in a number of instances have danced a kind of ‘shindig’ as soon as released from torture. 1935C. W. Parmenter Kings of Beacon Hill i. xv. 98 Does everyone attend those shindigs, Sandy, or is a girl invited by some special boy? 1946[see furore 2]. 1956Wallis & Blair Thunder Above (1959) ix. 98 He was killed in an air defence exercise. One of those NATO shindigs. 1959New Statesman 27 June 883/2 The competition among the ‘old nobility’ to attend what they termed ‘Aspers' little shindig’ was so fierce that five private detectives were hired to keep out the unwelcome. 1962E. Lucia Klondike Kate viii. 172 Kate never lacked a date for such shindigs. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xi. 267 ‘What's a ceilidh anyway?’.. ‘It's Gaelic for a gathering, a shindig.’
3. = shindy 3.
1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1268/2 Shindig, an altercation, a violent quarrel, a tremendous fuss. 1966Listener 17 Feb. 255/1 A classic row developed over the half birth of Peter Watkin's film The War Game, and this did not wholly distract from the shindig on the other side of the fence about a programme on the police. 1977‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon vi. 87 They'd kick up a shindig, naturally, but it was always their husbands they were furious with. |