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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 coupleplay

  Familiarity information: SHIVAREE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHIVAREE (noun)


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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