different between hoedown vs shindig

English

Etymology

1835–45, Americanism; hoe +? down. Social gathering after work time has finished

Noun

hoedown (plural hoedowns)

1. A type of American folk or square dance.

   John and Susie went to the square dance and did the hoedown.

   • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Guardian, 15 November 2012)[1]

     Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.

2. The type of music typically played for such a dance
3. A gathering at which such dances take place.

   We have to get to the hoedown before noon, or we'll be late.

Verb

hoedown (third-person singular simple present hoedowns, present participle hoedowning, simple past and past participle hoedowned)

1. To dance a hoedown dance
   • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[2]

     Having spent the day in the company of this thoughtful, friendly, uncommonly levelheaded band – charmed, completely – a protective part of me sort of wishes they wouldn't hoedown

See also

• breakdown
• hoedown on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Donohew, Henwood, woodhen

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of shindy, or from Scottish Gaelic sìnteag (“jump, leap”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n.d??/
• Hyphenation: shin?dig

Noun

shindig (plural shindigs)

1. A noisy party or festivities.
2. A noisy argument.

Translations

Further reading

• shindig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dishing, hidings