英语词汇shindig的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

shindig; shindy. Shin-dig is first recorded, in 1859, as a southernism for “a kick in the shins.” It came to mean a loud, lively party within 10 years or so and most authorities believe that the party shindig derives from the word meaning a kick in the shins. Another possibility is that the party name comes from the Scottish shinty, for “a wild form of field hockey played in Scotland” and, later, in America, shindy here possibly sug- gested by players being kicked in the shins. According to this theory, shinty (first recorded in 1771) became shindy (1821), a sailor’s word for “a spree, merrymaking” and shindy by mispro- nunciation later became shindig. There was, in fact, a U.S. ex- pression to kick up a shindy, “to cause a row or commotion,” at about the time shindig was born. I would guess that both shin- dig and shindig derive from shinty—shindy.

词汇	shindig
词源	shindig; shindy. Shin-dig is first recorded, in 1859, as a southernism for “a kick in the shins.” It came to mean a loud, lively party within 10 years or so and most authorities believe that the party shindig derives from the word meaning a kick in the shins. Another possibility is that the party name comes from the Scottish shinty, for “a wild form of field hockey played in Scotland” and, later, in America, shindy here possibly sug- gested by players being kicked in the shins. According to this theory, shinty (first recorded in 1771) became shindy (1821), a sailor’s word for “a spree, merrymaking” and shindy by mispro- nunciation later became shindig. There was, in fact, a U.S. ex- pression to kick up a shindy, “to cause a row or commotion,” at about the time shindig was born. I would guess that both shin- dig and shindig derive from shinty—shindy.
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