shivereens en · NOUN
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(UK, archaic, dialectal, plural, plural-only) Small fragments; smithereens.
Poor Charmer got deeper and deeper into falsehood, until one any he appeared with a mass of entangled wire in his hands, and declared that his machine had gone to shivereens.
1922, The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, volume 1, page 151: