shiveaun.
/ʃɪˈvəʊ/ dialect. Now rare or Obsolete except as shivoo n.
= shivoo n.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun]
party1707
kick-upc1781
shiveau1798
shine1882
shivoo1889
kitchen tea1896
percolator1946
shake1946
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
1798 C. Cathcart Let. 6 May in E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words (1925) 255 We have just left Gibraltar... Sir John Orde gave a grand chevaux to which he was so good as to invite me.
1828 ‘J. Bee’ Living Picture London ii. 83 A pressing invitation to what he calls a ‘Chiveau’, or merry dinner.
1849 A. Harris Emigrant Family I. vii. 114 A ‘shiveau’ at the hut.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 402 Sheevo, a shindy. ‘A bonny sheevo thuh wor.’
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 123/2 We'd a meetin i vesthry las' neet aboot a new cess, and them at didn't want yan kick'd up a riglar shebo.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 50/2 Shee-vo, a disturbance; a row. ‘There was such a grand shee-vo.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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