Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shindig

/ˈʃɪn.dɪɡ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.42 in modern English

Syllables: shin-dig
IPA: /ˈʃɪn.dɪɡ/

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A noisy party or festivities.

noun

A noisy argument.

Example Sentences

"They'd get up a regular shindig, if it wasn't for making too much noise."
""That's a darn shame. Well–I suppose you're waiting for somebody to take you out to some big shindig, Sir Gerald." "Shindig? Oh. Shindig. No, to tell you the truth, I was wondering what the deuce I could do this evening[…]""
"There was bound to be a New Year's shindig going on in his apartment down on Las Palmas."
"Which suggests that the man in the middle of what will be the planet’s splashiest shindig this weekend far prefers the stillness and privacy he finds about 1,500 miles away from London, on unpaved roads and rugged woods near the Carpathian Mountains."

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of shindy, or from Scottish Gaelic sìnteag (“jump, leap”).

Origin

Source language: Scottish Gaelic

Word Breakdown

Root: sìnteag

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈʃɪn.dɪɡ/

Inflected Forms

shindigs (plural)

Synonyms

shindy

Rhymes With

kindig

Questions

How do you pronounce shindig?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɪn.dɪɡ/.
What does shindig mean?: A noisy party or festivities.
Where does shindig come from?: It is traced to Scottish Gaelic.

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