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

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

I was home an’ abed afore ye kem in, an’ ye was full of the shindy at Mis’ MacBride’s.

From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas

Would you believe it, sorr, the very next day after you were gone, Imbono's men and Mboyo's men began to quarrel; 'twas Orange and Green, sorr, and a fine shindy.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang

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

"It's always new-comers as stirs up shindies," growled a miner who, having reached the surface a few minutes earlier, formed one of the expectant group.

From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers

Marks, shindies, prayers and punishments, all flavoured with the leathery stuffiness of time-worn Big Hall....

From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells