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shivaree, n. U.S. and Cornwall.|ʃɪvəˈriː|
Also shiveree.
Corrupt form of charivari n. Also fig.
1805J. F. Watson in Amer. Pioneer (1843) May 229 When a sherrie-varrie is announced, it is done by a running cry through the streets. 1843‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. lv. 231 The musicians..letting off at each repetition of the demand peals of shiver-ree. 1876‘Mark Twain’ Old Times 55, I started such a rattling ‘shivaree’ down below as never had astounded an engineer in this world before. 1881― Tramp Abroad xxxii, She turned on all the horrors of the ‘Battle of Prague’, that venerable shivaree, and waded chin-deep in the blood of the slain. 1883Cassell's Sat. Jrnl. I. 76 It was a shiveree—that is, the kind of serenade they give to a newly-married couple. 1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. v. 251 And now came the usual ‘shivaree’ about such and such a case. 1942A. L. Rowse Cornish Childhood 9 The most splendid of ‘shivarees’ given at Tregonissey was for the wedding of Eliza Dyer to Eneas (pronounced Enas) Kellow. 1966G. E. Evans Pattern under Plough xi. 115 It was called the Kiddly Band in Cornwall..and it took part in the shivaree or wedding junketings there until the 'twenties. 1977Western Morning News 30 Aug. 6/4 There was another word for a shallal: perhaps imported, or re-imported, from America. This is a shivaree, probably a corruption of charivari.
Hence shivaˈree v. trans., to greet or serenade with a ‘shivaree’.
1805J. F. Watson in Amer. Pioneer (1843) May 229 Edward Livingston, esq., was sherri-varried here; on which occasion the parties came out promptly to the balcony and thanked the populace for their attention. 1872E. Eggleston End of World xlvi. 294 Among the manly recreations which they have proposed to themselves is that of shivereeing ‘that Dutchman, Gus Wehle’. 1879G. W. Cable Old Creole Days (1883) 132 ‘What is it you call this thing where an old man marries a young girl, and you come out with horns and ―’ ‘Charivari?’ asked the Creoles. ‘Yes, that's it. Why don't you shivaree him?’ 1910Guide July 139/1 A crowd of the more riff-raff and ignorant foreigners..started out to ‘shivaree’ (mob and din to madness) the dreaded old man. |