| 单词 | to cut shindies |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut shindies 3. A row, commotion, ‘shine’. to cut shindies (U.S.), to kick up a shindy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > cause a disturbance [verb (intransitive)] to raise a dust1649 to stir up a hornets' nest1740 row1797 to kick up a shindy1829 to raise Cain1840 to raise the mischief1840 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 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > instance of viretotec1386 moving?a1439 reela1450 stir1487 songa1500 pirrie1536 hurly-burly1548 make-a-do1575 confusions1599 the hunt is upa1625 ruffle1642 fuss1701 fraction1721 fizza1734 dust1753 noration1773 steeriea1776 splorea1791 rook1808 piece of work1810 curfuffle1813 squall1813 rookerya1820 stushie1824 shindy1829 shine1832 hurroosh1836 fustle1839 upsetting1847 shinty1848 ructions1862 vex1862 houp-la1870 set-out1875 hoodoo1876 tingle-tangle1880 shemozzle1885 take-on1893 dust-up1897 hoo-ha1931 tra-la-la1933 gefuffle1943 tzimmes1945 kerfuffle1946 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > be in commotion or disorder [verb (intransitive)] > cause commotion or disorder to make work?1473 perturb1543 hurly-burly1598 to throw (also fling) the house out of (also at) the window (also windows)1602 tumultuate1611 to beat up the quarters of1670 hurricane1682 larum1729 to kick up, make, raise a stour1787 stour1811 to strike a bustle1823 to cut shindies1829 to kick up a shindy1829 hurricanize1833 rumpus1839 to raise (Old) Ned1840 to raise hell1845 fustle1891 to rock the boat1903 1829 B. Hall Trav. N. Amer. III. 325 I never saw a more complete row, or as a fellow near me called it, ‘a more regular shindy’. 1841 Sporting Rev. July 52 The docket of bankruptcy..created, as our polite continental neighbours call it, ‘a sensation’, or, in downright English, ‘a shindy’. a1845 R. H. Barham Hermann in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 335 He..Joins..in kicking up all sorts of shindies and bobberies. 1850 ‘Dow, Jr.’ Patent Serm. (Bartlett 1859) You..are..poor, and, therefore, ought to be careful how you cut shindies under the broadsword of justice. 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh i. 8 A chair being the favourite projectile in the event of a shindy. 1882 B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. ix. 189 He and his wife have had no end of a shindy. 1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1889) 1 They kick up such a shindy. 1903 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ All on Irish Shore 177 There was a frightful shindy, Carew wanting to have his blood, and all the rest of us trying to prevent a row. 1910 Meredith in Fortn. Rev. June 1055 Irishmen..never satisfied, thirsting for a shindy. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin vii. 115 If you want to kick up a shindy, Mister Parkin, you'd best do it outside. 1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File x. 61 We're not having another Burgess and Maclean shindy, questions in the House and all that. 1976 J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service iv. 53 There was quite a shindy, and there might have been more of it. < as lemmas |
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