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Meanings of skimmington ride in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "shivery"
Examples for "shivery"
1
She said it made her go all cold and shivery all over.
2
My bedroom's right above the kitchen and I woke up all shivery.
3
Her body throbbed, shivery tremors racing in riotous arcs across her skin.
4
Abruptly his mind grasped the thread linking together all this shivery confusion.
5
It makes me feel shivery to even think of such a thing!
1
He was delighted with my charivari, and then he said to me:
2
But I can tell you that a charivari is not always a joke.
3
A few days after the charivari affair, Mrs. D--stepped in to see me.
4
There will be a charivari in my rooms tonight.
5
I have even heard talk of getting up a 'charivari' under the windows on the wedding-night.
1
I hope you shivaree Man and his wife-andshivaree 'em good.
2
Well, anyway, when Bill and the girl got married, the boys came to 'shivaree' them.
3
I came to tell you that there's a scheme to raise-to'shivaree' you two, tonight.
4
But I understand just what this shivaree means.
5
It was like ordering a serenade of angels, and getting a shivaree in place of it.
1
Seton lives in Halifax and they NEVER chivaree people there.
2
It was more like the "chivaree" with which ironic crowds tormented bridal couples back in Nimrim, Mo.
3
But when they explained to me just how a chivaree was carried on, naturally I wanted in on the action.
4
I was only about nine years old, and I can't remember much about that one and only chivaree I ever attended.
5
"Well, it's the only chance we'll have to chivaree them," grumbled Dan.
Usage of skimmington ride in anglès
1
Up to this time he knew nothing of the skimmington -ride.