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shindig en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈʃɪn.dɪɡ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of shindy, or from Scottish Gaelic sìnteag (“jump, leap”).

Meanings

  1. A noisy party or festivities.
    • They'd get up a regular shindig, if it wasn't for making too much noise. 1861, “Mr. and Mrs. Rasher”, in Godey's Magazine, volume 62, page 348:
    • There was bound to be a New Year's shindig going on in his apartment down on Las Palmas. 1950, 45:01 from the start, in Sunset Blvd.:
    • "That's a darn shame. Well–I suppose you're waiting for somebody to take you out to some big shindig, Sir Gerald." "Shindig? Oh. Shindig. No, to tell you the truth, I was wondering what the deuce I could do this evening[…]" 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIX, in Babbitt, section III:
    • Which suggests that the man in the middle of what will be the planet’s splashiest shindig this weekend far prefers the stillness and privacy he finds about 1,500 miles away from London, on unpaved roads and rugged woods near the Carpathian Mountains. 2023 May 1, David Segal, “In Transylvania, Anyone With $200 Can Live Like a King. (Well, One Specific King.)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2023:
  2. A noisy argument.

Forms

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Translations (19)

de Festival (noisy party or festivity) · es juerga (noisy party or festivity) · de Rummel (noisy party or festivity) · es gran fiesta (noisy party or festivity) · bg шумна веселба (noisy party or festivity) · fr fiesta (noisy party or festivity) · es gran celebración (noisy party or festivity) · de Krach (noisy argument) · es guateque (noisy party or festivity) · pl biesiada (noisy party or festivity) · es fuerte altercado (noisy argument) · de Fete (noisy party or festivity) · gd hòro-gheallaidh (noisy party or festivity) · de Auseinandersetzung (noisy argument) · es jolgorio (noisy party or festivity) · pt arrasta-pé (noisy party or festivity) · de Party (noisy party or festivity) · es jaleo (noisy party or festivity) · bg шумен спор (noisy argument)

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