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contest
English
Etymology
From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?n.t?st/
- (US) enPR: k?n't?st, IPA(key): /?k?n.t?st/
- Rhymes: -?nt?st
Verb
- (UK, US) enPR: k?nt?st', IPA(key): /k?n?t?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
contest (countable and uncountable, plural contests)
- (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
- Synonyms: controversy, debate, discussion
- (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
- Synonyms: battle, combat, fight
- (countable) A competition.
- Synonyms: competition, pageant
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
contest (third-person singular simple present contests, present participle contesting, simple past and past participle contested)
- (intransitive) To contend.
- Synonyms: compete, contend, go in for
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory
- (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
- Synonyms: call into question, oppose
- Antonym: support
- 1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century
- Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
- (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
- (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
- Synonym: controvert
Translations
Anagrams
- Consett, Cottens
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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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