shivoon.
/ʃᵻˈvuː/, U.S. /ʃəˈvu/, Australian English /ʃəˈvuː/ Australian colloquial.
1. A celebration, a party, a spree.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun]
party1707
kick-upc1781
shiveau1798
shine1882
shivoo1889
kitchen tea1896
percolator1946
shake1946
1889 J. I. Hunt Hunt's Bk. Bonanzas 82 Jones had been to a lodge night shivoo, and he and the boys had a gay old time.
1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 16 Chivoo, a celebration.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Oct. 11/3 Calling for a juvenile descendant at a children's birthday party, I thought of my own similar shivoo 50 years ago.
1940 F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 59 Wally had a head full of the bush balladists and aspirations toward performing at bush shivoos.
1961 P. White Riders in Chariot ix. 314 Friday is the big shivoo, when the swells begin to swell.
1979 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 14 Jan. 6/5 More than 200,000 revellers packed the forecourt of Sydney's Opera House for the big shivoo on New Year's Eve.
2. A disturbance, a row.
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society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > a disturbance caused by dissension
tirpeilc1330
to-doc1330
affraya1393
frayc1420
tuilyiea1500
fraction1502
broil1525
ruffle1534
hurly-burly1548
embroilment1609
roil1690
fracas1727
row1746
the devil among the tailors1756
noration1773
splorea1791
kick-upa1793
rumption1802
ruction1809
squall1813
tulyie-mulyie1827
shindy1829
shine1832
donnybrook1852
shiveau1862
roughhouse1882
ruckus1885
shemozzle1885
turn-up1891
rookus1892
funk1900
incident1913
potin1922
shivoo1924
furore1946
shindig1961
1924 D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner Boy in Bush i. 15 There was a chivoo. They held me on their shoulders and I smashed the principal's windows.
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