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.
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Shindy
//ˈʃɪndi//
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"Well, from what I hear," Dr. Buckie went on, complacently, "there'll be more shindies. So look out!"
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"[…] I've married her. And I know there will be an awful shindy at home."
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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.
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