shivaree

I wanted to keep Man sober, and I tried to get him and his wife out of town before that shivaree of yours was pulled off.

I looked around for a means of defense, but the Chief told me not to be alarmed—it was merely a "shivaree."

I came to tell you that there's a scheme to raise—to 'shivaree' you two, tonight.

Another time, we went to Mannheim and attended a shivaree—otherwise an opera—the one called "Lohengrin."

It isn't so long, though, since you were just as determined to stay and have the shivaree, you remember.

Jest the same it 'ud sure surprise me if we didn't git some sort of a shivaree pahty afteh nightfall.

Scales had fixed up for a crowd of hoodlums to shivaree them as they went.

I wonder what poor old Elder Edkins would say now if he caught sight of me in this shivaree.

Often the young men, stimulated with more or less “moonshine,” add the literally stunning compliment of a shivaree.