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SHIVAREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shivaree mean?
• SHIVAREE (noun)
The noun SHIVAREE has 1 sense:
1. a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple
Familiarity information: SHIVAREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
belling; callathump; callithump; charivari; chivaree; shivaree
Hypernyms ("shivaree" is a kind of...):
serenade (a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman)
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