Charivari n. A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult; called also shivaree.
Synonyms:shivaree, charivari, callithump, callathump. Note: It was at first performed before the house of any person of advanced age who married a second time.
... houses within her means were not desirable for the reception of a feeble convalescent; moreover, Mr. Gudgeon grumbled and inquired, and was only withheld by warnings enhanced by the police from carrying the whole charivari of the Salvation Army along Ivinghoe ... — Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy, whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory, and who is afflicted with a tendency to trace home the glittering miscellany of fruits and flowers to one root. Science is a search ... — The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
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