shindy

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.

"[…] I've married her. And I know there will be an awful shindy at home."

[…] 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.

"Father took a wonderful shindy to her, for even old men can't help liking beauty. […] "