shindy

A shindig.

She and Eileen are giving a shindy for Gladys—that's Gerald's new acquisition, you know. So if you don't mind butting into a baby-show we'll run down.

"Well, from what I hear," Dr. Buckie went on, complacently, "there'll be more shindies. So look out!"

An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.

"[…] I've married her. And I know there will be an awful shindy at home."

I always do sit with my hands in my pockets except when I am in the company of my sisters, my cousins, or my aunts; and they kick up such a shindy—I should say expostulate so eloquently upon the subject—that I have to give in and take them out—my hands I mean.

hockey; shinney

[…] what is even more disgusting still, I have seen children playing at "shindy" in a Churchyard, a skull used as a substitute for a ball, and large fragments of leg or arm-bones in the place of sticks.

A fancy or liking.

"Father took a wonderful shindy to her, for even old men can't help liking beauty. […]"