1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends (1862), 204. he won't kick up such shindies, Were she once fairly married and off to the Indies.
1841. Comic Almanack, 260. Vell, sartingly its vindy; and here's a pretty shindy.
1847. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ii. xix. There's a regular shinty in the house; and everything at sixes and sevens.
1864. Derby-day, 8. He asked them if they wanted to insult him grossly, and there was a very comfortable little shindy over it.
1869. Mrs. Wood, Roland Yorke, xiii. "Which cheque?" . . . "The one there's all this shindy over at Greatorex and Greatorex's."
1889. Cassell's Sat. Jl., 19 Jan., 398. It was safe to prophecy that there would shortly be a shindy somewhere.
1892. Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads, 'The Legend of Evil.' He wint to stop the shindy, The Devil wid a stable-fork bedivillin' their tails.
1897. Mitford, Romance of Cape Frontier, ii. iii. Did you get hit in that shindy just now?
4. (American).—A liking; a fancy.
1859. Haliburton, Human Nature, 70. Father took a wonderful shindy to Jessie; for even old men can't help liking beauty.
Shine, subs. (common).—1. A
happening; a to-do (q.v.),
whether warlike or not; specifically
a frolic. Hence (2) =
show, or display; and (3) a row,
a shindy (q.v.). To cut a
shine = to make a show; every
shine = every one. As verb. =
(1) to make a stir, or impression,
and (2) to raise or show money;
to take the shine out of =
(1) to outwit, and (2) put in the
shade; to shine up (or take a
shine) to = to make oneself
agreeable; to have a fancy for.
1818. Egan, Boxiana, i. 23. Who was selected to punish this Venetian for his vain-boasting, that he would take the shine out of Englishmen! Ibid. (1842), By-Blow of the Jug [Captain Macheath]. To the end of your life cut a shine.
1835. Haliburton, Clockmaker 1 S., xvi. They fairly take the shine off creation—they are actilly equal to cash.
1843. Major Jones's Courtship, ii. They was all comin' to me bout it, and shinin' and disputin' so I couldn't hardly hear one from tother.
1847. Robb, Squatter Life. To make a shine with Sally I took her a new parasol.
1847. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ii. xxv. A long, thin, queer-looking, oldish fellow—a dry fellow though, that took the shine out op a man in the talking line.
1848. Burton. Waggeries, 78. Quite careless as to what 'didoes and shines' he might cut in future.
1848. Ruxton, Far West, 13. I say. It won't shine, and whar's the dollars? Ibid., 174. You can't shine.
1851. Cobb, Mississippi Scenes, 155. I'm pretty much like the old man, only I took a sort o' shine to old Cass.
1852. Dickens, Bleak House, lvii. There'd be a pretty shine made if I was to go a-wisitin them, I think."
1853. Diogenes, ii. 46. And take out their shine With a jolly large fine.
1856. Dow, Sermons, 1. I've seen some evening twilights that take the shine off everything below.
c.1859. New York Sp. of Times [Bartlett]. You will find heaps of bogus money here, but bogus men can't shine.
1861. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, xli. There's mostly a shine of a Sunday evening.
1864. Hertford Post, 14 July. The public . . . will pronounce her the finest and most comfortable boat they have ever visited, and be satisfied that she is bound to shine.
1866. Major Downing's Letters, 37. I'm sorry he didn't bring his pitch-pipe with him, just to take the shine of them 'are singers.
1869. Stowe, Oldtown, 235. She needn't think she's goin' to come round me with any of her shines, . . . with lying stories about me.
1883. T. Winthrop, John Brent, 17 I've tuk a middlin' shine to you, and don't want to see yer neck broke.
