The word shivaree is especially common along and west of the Mississippi River. From Wordnik.com. [The WELL: Sugaree] Reference
Well, anyway, when Bill and the girl got married, the boys came to 'shivaree' them. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
I came to tell you that there's a scheme to raise -- to 'shivaree' you two, tonight. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Land] Reference
So in blind desperation I started such a rattling 'shivaree' down below as never had astounded an engineer in this world before, I fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
Princess, "a sort of sublimated" shivaree "in which oboes quawk, muted trumpets bray, pizzicato strings flutter, and mandolins (loved of. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Note 2: shivaree, a noisy mock serenade to a newly married couple. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Wilkins Lyrics, Page 1] Reference
And now came the usual ‘shivaree’ about such and such a case, and what would be taken next week, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
Mon 3 May 04 10: 00 has anyone dug into the etymological connection between Sugaree and shivaree? deadsongs. vue.193. From Wordnik.com. [The WELL: Sugaree] Reference
We took him over there and gave him kind of a shivaree. From Wordnik.com. [Clovis News Journal : News] Reference
Another time, we went to Mannheim and attended a shivaree. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02] Reference
` ` Bienvenu, '' said little White, ` ` don't shivaree old. From Wordnik.com. [Old Creole Days] Reference
I hope you shivaree Man and his wife -- and shivaree 'em good. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Land] Reference
"But you can shivaree somebody else," said desperate little White. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools] Reference
` ` But you can shivaree somebody else, '' said desperate little White. From Wordnik.com. [Old Creole Days] Reference
Jest the same it 'ud sure surprise me if we didn't git some sort of a shivaree pahty afteh nightfall. From Wordnik.com. [Rimrock Trail] Reference
Man sober, and I tried to get him and his wife out of town before that shivaree of yours was pulled off. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Land] Reference
"It isn't so long, though, since you were just as determined to stay and have the shivaree, you remember.". From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Land] Reference
` ` Patty, '' said little White, ` ` the drug-clerk says the boys are going to shivaree old Poquelin to-night. From Wordnik.com. [Old Creole Days] Reference
Another time, we went to Mannheim and attended a shivaree, -- otherwise an opera, -- the one called "Lohengrin.". From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad] Reference
"I'll never get married again; at least not in the land of the shivaree," I told White Mountain as we tried to repair the damage. From Wordnik.com. [I Married a Ranger] Reference
A shivaree: a noisy mock serenade to a newly married couple. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"Patty," said little White, "the drug-clerk says the boys are going to shivaree old Poquelin to-night. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools] Reference
Saw a bullyin 'alligator doin' the shivaree. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Wilkins Lyrics, Page 1] Reference
The Literary Assassin: shivaree skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [shivaree] Reference
Go down an 'shivaree him. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Dooley's Philosophy] Reference
Why don't you shivaree him? ''. From Wordnik.com. [Old Creole Days] Reference
They've gone down to shivaree the old. From Wordnik.com. [Old Creole Days] Reference
If your great-grandmammy do the shivaree (?). From Wordnik.com. [Pick Poor Robin Clean] Reference
"shivaree.". From Wordnik.com. ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference
Why don't you shivaree him? ". From Wordnik.com. [Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools] Reference
"Sort of rhymes with 'shivaree.'". From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
"The boys are talkin 'about a shivaree t'-night. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Land] Reference
"Bienvenu," said little White, "don't shivaree old Poquelin to-night; he's --". From Wordnik.com. [Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools] Reference
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