Wordie: Shindigs: Comments

Comment by Minerva, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:51:11 +0000

Rout: 6. a large, formal evening party or social gathering. (dictionary.com) 5. A fashionable gathering. (thefreedictionary.com)

Comment by Goatboy, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:37:36 +0000

Revelry

Which is difficult to say when drunk.

Comment by Goatboy, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:32:36 +0000

And don't forget a right good "knees up"

Comment by Goatboy, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:28:31 +0000

A blog in the Irish Times newspaper from last October:

"The piece was to plug this weekend’s Shindig, a hooley to mark 10 years of Crash Ensemble business..."

http://www.ireland.com/blogs/ontherecord/2007/10/11/a-whack-of-the-baton/

Comment by Asativum, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:16:46 +0000

Hooley it is, then! Thanks.

Comment by sionnach, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:30:45 +0000

Asativum: I'll vouch for hooley - it's actually pretty commonly used in Ireland.

I'm not sure I would consider a rout to be a celebration, or cause for celebration.

Comment by Asativum, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:04:47 +0000

I dunno about rout, unless there's a meaning I'm unfamiliar with. They aren't usually planned, and a good proportion of the people there didn't actually plan to attend, at least not quite like that.

Are there other citations for hooley? I'd like to stick to words in reasonably common use. Admittedly, I've only done a very cursory search.

Comment by Minerva, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:58:03 +0000

Has no one been to a rout?

Comment by Goatboy, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:51:27 +0000

A hooley is an Irish term meaning party

http://www.hooleys-pub.com/aboutus.html

Comment by Asativum, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:09:11 +0000

Got bash; what's a hooley?

Comment by Goatboy, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:27:38 +0000

Or a bash

Comment by Goatboy, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:26:44 +0000

You can't beat a good hooley

Comment by mollusque, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:23:20 +0000

Have a callithumpian good time with it!

Comment by Asativum, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:03:08 +0000

Oh man, how could I have lived this long without benefit of the word callithump?!

Comment by mollusque, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:40:27 +0000

How about a callithump?

Comment by reesetee, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:31:23 +0000

See, A, that's how I wanted to spell kaffee klatsch, but I made the mistake of checking a dictionary. Just goes to show you.... ;-)

Comment by Minerva, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:52:03 +0000

How about a rout?

Comment by Asativum, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:17:16 +0000

Hm. I may need to think about this too much. Hen and stag parties I'll take: I've heard them used generically as gatherings of women and men, respectively (if not necessarily respectfully).

Spelling bee, bachelor party and sleepover strike me as too specific: They're not so much shindigs as particular kinds of shindigs: you do something so specific.

But I'll take bee, wake, reception, picnic, banquet, chautauqua and shower -- and, while I'm thinking of it, rendezvous, too.

Comment by sionnach, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:13:37 +0000

Would sleepover qualify for this list? bachelor party? hen party? baby shower? (what one of the women at my last job used to refer to as an 'estrogen fest') stag party? pub crawl? cotillion? quilting bee? quince... that 15-year old's bash? wake? reception? 'chatauqua' (sp?) picnic? banquet?

More frivolously: auto-da-fe? exorcism?

I know that 'Carousel' had the clambake (jes' how many of then galloped down our gullets, we couldn't say oursel'). What was it in 'Oklahoma'? A covered-dish supper?

Comment by Asativum, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:26:11 +0000

I like barn-raising, and thanks for party too -- I was remiss in not listing it sooner. I'm going for events that are planned or for which people gather. Is gabfest too spontaneous/general?

Comment by mollusque, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:01:17 +0000

Is party too pedestrian? How about barn-raising and gabfest?

Comment by Asativum, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:42:14 +0000

Excellent. Thanks, reesetee! And to leave you a spare "c" or two, I used "k" for kaffee klatsch.

Comment by reesetee, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:29:13 +0000

Nifty! Clambake? Coffee klatch? Conclave? (Don't ask me why all these "c" words popped into my head.)

Comment by Asativum, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:17:10 +0000

Good one -- thanks!

Comment by skipvia, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:07:22 +0000

I've always loved ceilidh, both as a word and as an event.