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  • skipvia commented on the list shindigs

    I've always loved ceilidh, both as a word and as an event.

    January 23, 2008

  • asativum commented on the list shindigs

    Good one -- thanks!

    January 23, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list shindigs

    Nifty! Clambake? Coffee klatch? Conclave? (Don't ask me why all these "c" words popped into my head.)

    January 23, 2008

  • asativum commented on the list shindigs

    Excellent. Thanks, reesetee! And to leave you a spare "c" or two, I used "k" for kaffee klatsch.

    January 23, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list shindigs

    Is party too pedestrian? How about barn-raising and gabfest?

    January 23, 2008

  • asativum commented on the list shindigs

    I like barn-raising, and thanks for party too -- I was remiss in not listing it sooner. I'm going for events that are planned or for which people gather. Is gabfest too spontaneous/general?

    January 23, 2008

  • sionnach commented on the list shindigs

    Would sleepover qualify for this list? bachelor party? hen party? baby shower? (what one of the women at my last job used to refer to as an 'estrogen fest') stag party? pub crawl? cotillion? quilting bee? quince... that 15-year old's bash? wake? reception? 'chatauqua' (sp?) picnic? banquet?

    More frivolously: auto-da-fe? exorcism?

    I know that 'Carousel' had the clambake (jes' how many of then galloped down our gullets, we couldn't say oursel'). What was it in 'Oklahoma'? A covered-dish supper?

    January 23, 2008

  • asativum commented on the list shindigs

    Hm. I may need to think about this too much. Hen and stag parties I'll take: I've heard them used generically as gatherings of women and men, respectively (if not necessarily respectfully).

    Spelling bee, bachelor party and sleepover strike me as too specific: They're not so much shindigs as particular kinds of shindigs: you do something so specific.

    But I'll take bee, wake, reception, picnic, banquet, chautauqua and shower -- and, while I'm thinking of it, rendezvous, too.

    January 23, 2008

  • minerva commented on the list shindigs

    How about a rout?

    January 23, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list shindigs

    See, A, that's how I wanted to spell kaffee klatsch, but I made the mistake of checking a dictionary. Just goes to show you.... ;-)

    January 23, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list shindigs

    How about a callithump?

    January 24, 2008

  • asativum commented on the list shindigs

    Oh man, how could I have lived this long without benefit of the word callithump?!

    January 24, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list shindigs

    Have a callithumpian good time with it!

    January 24, 2008

  • goatboy commented on the list shindigs

    You can't beat a good hooley

    January 24, 2008

  • goatboy commented on the list shindigs

    Or a bash

    January 24, 2008

  • asativum commented on the list shindigs

    Got bash; what's a hooley?

    January 24, 2008

  • goatboy commented on the list shindigs

    A hooley is an Irish term meaning party

    http://www.hooleys-pub.com/aboutus.html

    January 24, 2008

  • minerva commented on the list shindigs

    Has no one been to a rout?

    January 24, 2008

  • asativum commented on the list shindigs

    I dunno about rout, unless there's a meaning I'm unfamiliar with. They aren't usually planned, and a good proportion of the people there didn't actually plan to attend, at least not quite like that.

    Are there other citations for hooley? I'd like to stick to words in reasonably common use. Admittedly, I've only done a very cursory search.

    January 24, 2008

  • sionnach commented on the list shindigs

    Asativum: I'll vouch for hooley - it's actually pretty commonly used in Ireland.

    I'm not sure I would consider a rout to be a celebration, or cause for celebration.

    January 25, 2008

  • asativum commented on the list shindigs

    Hooley it is, then! Thanks.

    January 25, 2008

  • goatboy commented on the list shindigs

    A blog in the Irish Times newspaper from last October:

    "The piece was to plug this weekend’s Shindig, a hooley to mark 10 years of Crash Ensemble business..."

    http://www.ireland.com/blogs/ontherecord/2007/10/11/a-whack-of-the-baton/

    January 25, 2008

  • goatboy commented on the list shindigs

    And don't forget a right good "knees up"

    January 25, 2008

  • goatboy commented on the list shindigs

    Revelry

    Which is difficult to say when drunk.

    January 25, 2008

  • minerva commented on the list shindigs

    Rout: 6. a large, formal evening party or social gathering. (dictionary.com) 5. A fashionable gathering. (thefreedictionary.com)

    January 25, 2008

  • danama commented on the list shindigs

    throwdown

    September 19, 2013