Meaning of skimmity-ride | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of charivari (“mock serenade”).

Examples

““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.”

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