Broil vs Shindy - What's the difference?
broil | shindy |
To cook by direct, radiant heat.
To expose to great heat.
To be exposed to great heat.
(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
* Burke
* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
A shindig.
* 1939 , John Boynton Priestley, Let the People Sing
(slang) An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.
hockey; shinney
(US, dialect, dated) A fancy or liking.
As nouns the difference between broil and shindy
is that broil is food prepared by broiling or broil can be (archaic) a brawl; a rowdy disturbance while shindy is a shindig.As a verb broil
is to cook by direct, radiant heat or broil can be to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.broil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.
Anagrams
*shindy
English
Noun
(shindies)- "Well, from what I hear," Dr. Buckie went on, complacently, "there'll be more shindies . So look out!"
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