shindy

Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last, raising his voice above the shindy, the whimsical sheriff succeeded in obtaining something like silence.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford

Only a Petrel, I, But when my form you spy,— Look out for shindy.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 by Various

Why, man, we had the most infernal shindy yesterday ever kicked up between two full-blown lunatics.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford

I have been sorry since, for I suspect it was a Home Rule meeting, and Limerick has a great reputation for shindies.

From The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson

It is getting a big bore, When, with tempers hot as Indies, Heroes smash each other's windies, Pursuing of their shindies about Afric's shore.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various

Our dress was costly; not that it had much lace and gold on it, but that, what between falling on the road at night, shindies at mess, and other devilment, a coat lasted no time.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

Those ten centuries are full of lusty fights, victories, vanquishments, quarrels, peacemaking, shindies big and little, rumpus solemn and ridiculous, clouds of dust, regal dust, political dust, and religious dust—you know the way of it.

From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Sir Hall Caine

He gathered from the papers that writers, painters, musicians, were holding shindies almost every night, at which delightful rebels, too busy to occupy themselves with actual creation, talked charmingly about their plans.

From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley