shivoo n.
a party, a celebration.
Soldier and Sailor Words (1925) 255: We have just left Gibraltar [...] Sir John Orde gave a grand chevaux to which he was so good as to invite me. | Letter 6 May in Fraser & Gibbons||
Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 49: Cheveaux — pron. Shivaugh by Jack Burdett who often holds one [...] Dinner, wine, song, and uproar. | ||
Australian (Sydney) 12 May 3/5: He said, that having been invited to a ‘chev-ho,’ he had lent his guest the ensign to decorate the shuffling room a bit. | ||
‘Nights At Sea’ in Bentley’s Misc. May 478: They’re having a jolly sheave-o in the cabin! | ||
New Purchase II 228: The Shiver-ree-ers would insist on seeing the bridegroom. [Ibid.] 231: The musicians did not retire off [...] but remained and calling for ‘big-bug wine!’ [...] and letting off at each repetition of the demand peals of shiver-ree. | ||
Forty-Niner (1920) 23: The boys [...] gathered and gave the couple a shivaree [DA]. | ||
Cheshire Obs. 19 June 2/3: I started such a rattling ‘shivaree’ down below. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Feb. 8/4: By the way, who was the clerical gentleman who refused the Press tickets for a little ‘shivoo’ because, as he politely observed, he ‘wanted no sinners.’. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Jan. 22/4: Only the other day we drew attention to the fact that loving, but level-headed, papas were encouraging their future son-in-laws to elope with their darling gyurls, in order to save the ruinous expense of the nuption shavoos. | ||
Dead Bird (Sydney) 14 Dec. 1/4: A naval gentleman was lately attiring: himself for a chivoo in tho shape of a ball at s Government House. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 6/3: The Austral Salon shivoo went off amid a great flourish of trumpets at Melbourne Hiberian Hall, in the presence of Governor Hopetoun and all Toorak sassiety. | ||
Motherwell Times (Lanark, Scot.) 25 Nov. 1/2: The wedding passed off, sir, with the gol-whoppinest shivaree ever got up. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 7 July 13/2: Teetotal ‘Tommy’ Taylor, lately departed out of Maoriland politics, at a ginger-beer shivoo: [...]. It takes a fish-blooded teetotaller to say things like that to a sick giant. | ||
Sporting Times 9 June 3/2: Before this lunching shivvoo got fairly started, the waiter brought out some funny little mottled eggs. | ||
Pitcher in Paradise 41: Before this lunching shivoo got fairly started, the waiter brought out some funny little mottled eggs. | ||
Coventry Eve. Tel. 11 Dec. 2/5: The ‘1812’ overture as a musical shivaree. | ||
Sun. Times (Perth) 7 Feb. 5/4: The annual shivoo came round and the party politicians were carefully omitted from the dead-head list. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Aug. 43/2: We all had invites to the shivoo, except Dynamite. | ||
Truth (Wellington) 22 June 1/5: A farmer speaking at a Ministerial shivoo. | ||
Digger Dialects 16: chivoo (n.) — A celebration. | ||
(con. WWI) Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: chivoo. A Celebration. | ||
Sun. Times (Perth) 6 July 11/4: The preparations for the shivoo had been proceeding for the past week. | ||
AS I:3 152: That wild-sounding word spelled ‘charivari’ and pronounced with huge abandon ‘shiveree,’ which means a serenade on new-married couples, is from the French. | ‘Westernisms’ in||
(con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 254: Sheavo (or Sheevo): A row: a free fight. Also an entertainment. | ||
Working Bullocks 14: There’s a shivoo at Marritown. | ||
London Town 235: The concert party huddled into sight to sing it, and – the shivvoo started. | ||
(con. 1900) Green Grow the Lilacs I iv: Gonna be a weddin’—Gonna be a shivoree. | ||
Capricornia (1939) 182: There’s gonner be a weddin’ at Black Adder Creek. [...] We’ll make a bonzer shivoo of it. | ||
Hysterical Hist. of Aus. 51: He gave a shivoo at Government House. | ||
Elmtown’s Youth (1975) 321: Rice and old shoes are thrown [...] these symbols of good luck accompany almost every shivaree. | ||
Come in Spinner (1960) 241: ‘She’s ’avin a party Satdy night to announce it. ‘No!’ ‘Yes! Throwin’ a real big shivoo.’. | ||
Jimmy Brockett 206: I’d been to a good few shivoes like this and ended up with a little tart sitting on my knee. | ||
Sydney Morn. Herald 11 May 30/3: Madame Onassis has arranged [...] the biggest and plushest chivoo. | ||
I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 238/2: shevoo (shevoo, shivaroo) – a big, fancy party. said to have come from the French chez vous. | ||
Solid Mandala (1976) 87: There were big shivoos with celebrities from Sydney. | ||
Psychotic Reactions (1988) 64: A victory shivaree whooping juicemad all the long night after a war. | in||
Folklore of the Aus. Pub 128: Shivoo: a drinking party. | ||
Close Quarters (1987) 99: We must have sung that song a hundred times, serenading the whole battalion with a regular shivaree. | ||
Dinkum Aussie Dict. 46: Shivoo: A party similar to a rort except that in the first instance dancing takes precedence over fighting. | ||
Lingo 134: Hardly ever heard today is the term shivoo, an Anglicisation of the French chez vous, meaning your place and widely used at least as early as the 1830s. It was still current in the 1940s, but seems to have since lurched into obsolescence. | ||
Sydney Morn. Herald 13 Dec. 26/6: Jones hosted his annual Christmas shivoo. |