| 释义 |
shivoo Austral. colloq.|ʃɪˈvuː|
Also chivoo.
[Var. shiveau.]
a. A celebration, a party, a spree.
b. A disturbance, a row.
1889J. 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. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 16 Chivoo, a celebration. 1924Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush i. 15 There was a chivoo. They held me on their shoulders and I smashed the principal's windows. 1933Bulletin (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. 1940F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 59 Wally had a head full of the bush balladists and aspirations toward performing at bush shivoos. 1961P. White Riders in Chariot ix. 314 Friday is the big shivoo, when the swells begin to swell. 1979Sunday 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. |