Would an American use the word shindy, which was London street slang for fight or row?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portrait of a Killer]

Their comrade had stolen off and was already in a "shindy" at the rear of the store.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters] Reference

But sweetest of all shindy to which man's ear may list.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890] Reference

War — that little shindy of schoolboys with gunpowder?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Dalloway] Reference

"Well, they did have a shindy," repeated L'Enfant Terrible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

“I bet you Sandy rather enjoyed kicking up that shindy.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference

I picked it up while the shindy was going on between you and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

'' Santi, you run out and see what all this shindy is about? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

Heard the shindy of their shoutings, and the braying of their bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892] Reference

"Pay for the room or not pay for the room, you didn't pay to make that shindy!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

Aubrey gave them to her while all the shindy was going on in front of the Titian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Detective Stories]

And then the commander of the division arrived, and kicked up the devil of a shindy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference

And alas, that very afternoon she and Peter had what Peter called a first-class shindy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Railway Children] Reference

"Begorra!" he cried in his rich brogue, "'tis a lovely shindy ye've been after havin '.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference

I met there the king of all special correspondents, and had an immediate shindy with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference

Call upon Dr Jolliffe indeed, to get a couple of school-boys, whom he had fleeced, into a shindy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference

I want some fun, and there'll be a shindy if I don't get it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A harum-scarum schoolgirl] Reference

John, upon this eventful evening, soon became aware of a shindy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hill A Romance of Friendship] Reference

"But we're making a regular knock-me-down shindy," said Llewellyn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric, or Little by Little] Reference

'Whew!' said Hugh Flaxman, 'but that will be a shindy worth seeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Elsmere] Reference

The machine guns were certainly chronic, the shindy enough to appal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhymes of a Red Cross Man] Reference

I not now entertain you with the account of a most tremendous shindy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference

I wur afeard to break the peace, which mout a led to a general shindy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference

"Mrs. Ranny told me he was up there, and I guessed there was a shindy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Quin] Reference

At four sharp, whole town of Egaja plunged into emotion, and worse shindy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

'The most placable creatures alive, and the surest for getting-up a shindy.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

"Is the consoompted chafe that they're makin 'the snake shindy for married on her?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899] Reference

But thim that was in at the finish is waggin 'their tongues about it bein' a dandy shindy.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Firebrand' Trevison] Reference

"Look here, old sport," he said affably: "what the dooce is all this shindy about -- hey?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference

"Wouldn't you like to be back with us again, for the shindy that we are likely to have, tomorrow?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War] Reference