Shivaree

  

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Shivaree

Definition: Shivaree

Shivaree

Noun

1. A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shivaree" was first used: 1843. (references)


Synonyms: Shivaree

Synonyms: belling (n), callathump (n), callithump (n), charivari (n), chivaree (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Shivaree

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Shivaree (1965)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Shivaree

DomainTitle

Books

  • Devil's Ditch: Ol' Whitey and the Shivaree (reference)

  • Longarm and the Shivaree Riders (Longarm, No 202) (reference)

  • Shivaree : a play in two acts (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shivaree

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

shivaree

83

lyrics shivaree

5

shivaree goodnight moon

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Shivaree

Language Translations for "shivaree"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Rummel (bustle, fair, fuss, hurly burly, hustle and bustle, racket, shindig, whoopee). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivareeshay

   

Russian 

  

шуточная серенада. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Shivaree

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

karebaria. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

caribaria. (various references)

Old French900-1400

chalivali. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Shivaree

Derivations

Words beginning with "shivaree": shivareed, shivareeing, shivarees. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Shivaree

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-r-s-v"

-1 letter: heavers, heavier, heavies, reshave, shrieve.

-2 letters: aeries, aivers, ashier, averse, easier, haeres, havers, hearse, heaver, heaves, ravish, reaves, reives, revise, shaver, shavie, sheave, shiver, shrive, varies.

-3 letters: aerie, aiver, arise, avers, eaves, erase, hairs, hares, haver, haves, hears, heave, heirs, heres, hires, hives, raise, raves, reave, reive, rheas, rives, saree, saver, serai, serve.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-i-r-s-v"
 

+1 letter: achievers, chivarees, shivareed, shivarees.

 

+2 letters: chevaliers, echeverias, enravished, enravishes, misbehaver.

 

+3 letters: harvesttime, misbehavers, shivareeing.

 

+4 letters: apprehensive, czarevitches, harvesttimes, hyperactives, overachieves, overemphasis, shrievalties, venographies.

 

+5 letters: overachievers, overemphasize, superachiever, underachieves, videographers, videographies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Shivaree


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 69 76 61 72 65 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    ..    ...-    .-    .-.    .    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110010 01100101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#105 &#118 &#97 &#114 &#101 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0069 0076 0061 0072 0065 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5374758867847171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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