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Charivari

noun
1.
A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.  Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, chivaree, shivaree.





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"Charivari" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Charivari" :   serenade, callithump, callathump, belling, shivaree


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