skimmity-ride

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skimmity-ride (plural skimmity-rides)

  1. Synonym of charivari (mock serenade)
    • 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 36, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
      “What do they mean by a ‘skimmity-ride’?” he asked. “O, sir!” said the landlady, swinging her long earrings with deprecating modesty; “’tis a’ old foolish thing they do in these parts when a man’s wife is - well, not too particularly his own.