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barney
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bä?ni, IPA(key): /?b??ni/
- (General American) enPR: bä??ni, IPA(key): /?b??ni/
- Rhymes: -??(?)ni
Etymology 1
Etymology unknown. Often incorrectly thought to be Cockney rhyming slang from "Barney Rubble" ( "trouble", from the character Barney Rubble on The Flintstones), it actually dates back to the 19th century and its origin is unknown.
Noun
barney (plural barneys)
- (obsolete, Britain, slang) A lark, a romp, some fun.
- (obsolete, Britain, slang) A hoax, a humbug, something that is not genuine, a rigged or unfair sporting contest.
- (obsolete, Harvard University slang) A poor recitation. [c. 1810]
- (Britain, Australia, slang) A noisy argument.
- (Britain, Australia, slang) A minor physical fight.
- (US dialect, Boston) A student at Harvard University.
Adjective
barney (comparative more barney, superlative most barney)
- (obsolete, Britain, slang) insane crazy, loony.
Synonyms
- (noisy argument): quarrel, row, or see Thesaurus:dispute
- (fight): fisticuffs, scuffle, or see Thesaurus:fight
Verb
barney (third-person singular simple present barneys, present participle barneying, simple past and past participle barneyed)
- (obsolete, Harvard University slang) To recite badly; to fail. [c. 1810]
- (Britain, Australia) To argue, to quarrel.
Synonyms
- (argue): bicker, have a barney, row, squabble, or see Thesaurus:squabble
References
- Hall, Benjamin Homer (1851) A Collection of College Words and Customs?[8], page 15
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) , “barney”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, pages 81–82
- Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues?[9], volume 1, page 129
Etymology 2
From the character Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show.
Noun
barney (plural barneys)
- (US, pejorative slang) A police officer, usually one perceived as inferior or overzealous.
- 2005, “Scott Peterson's sister speaks out”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?[10], MSNBC, March 3, 2005: “Foo”
Synonyms
- (police officer): fed, pig, or see Thesaurus:police officer
Anagrams
- brayne, nearby
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shindy
English
Etymology
Uncertain; compare shinney, shinty.
Noun
shindy (countable and uncountable, plural shindies or shindys)
- A shindig.
- 1907, Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set, New York: D. Appleton & Co., [1]
- 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.
- 1907, Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set, New York: D. Appleton & Co., [1]
- (slang) An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.
- 1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, Chapter LXXIII, [2]
- " […] I've married her. And I know there will be an awful shindy at home."
- 1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, [3]
- 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.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1, [4]
- […] it was like a Catholic priest striking peace in an Irish shindy.
- 1984, Oliver Sacks, A Leg to Stand On, HarperPerennial, 1993, Chapter Two, p. 23,
- Nurse Solveig inserted the thermometer and disappeared—disappeared (I timed it) for more than twenty minutes. Nor did she answer my bell, or come back, until I set up a shindy.
- 1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, Chapter LXXIII, [2]
- hockey; shinney
- 1841, Anonymous, The Living and the Dead: A Letter to the People of England, on the State of their Churchyards, London: Whittaker & Co., p. 31, [5]
- […] what is even more disgusting still, I have seen children playing at "shindy" in a Churchyard, a skull used as a substitute for a ball, and large fragments of leg or arm-bones in the place of sticks.
- 1841, Anonymous, The Living and the Dead: A Letter to the People of England, on the State of their Churchyards, London: Whittaker & Co., p. 31, [5]
- (US, dialect, dated) A fancy or liking.
- 1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature, Chapter V, [6]
- "Father took a wonderful shindy to her, for even old men can't help liking beauty. […] "
- 1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature, Chapter V, [6]
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