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

Revelry

Which is difficult to say when drunk.

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

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/

Hooley it is, then! Thanks.

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.

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.

Has no one been to a rout?

A hooley is an Irish term meaning party

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

Got bash; what's a hooley?

Or a bash

You can't beat a good hooley

Have a callithumpian good time with it!

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

How about a callithump?

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.... ;-)

How about a rout?

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.

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?

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?

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

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

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

Good one -- thanks!

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