Charivari vs Callithump - What's the difference?
charivari | callithump |
The noisy banging of pots and pans as a mock serenade to a newly married couple, or similar occasion.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 94:
Any loud, cacophonous noise or hubbub.
(US) A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises.
(US) A burlesque serenade; a charivari.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between charivari and callithump
is that charivari is the noisy banging of pots and pans as a mock serenade to a newly married couple, or similar occasion while callithump is (us) a somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises.charivari
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Alternative forms
* shivaree (US)Noun
- The marriage ceremony was given primordial significance over folkloric pre-marriage engagement rituals and wild charvaris .