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


    Jan 25, 2008

  • goatboy Revelry

    Which is difficult to say when drunk. Jan 25, 2008

  • goatboy And don't forget a right good "knees up" Jan 25, 2008

  • goatboy 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/ Jan 25, 2008

  • asativum Hooley it is, then! Thanks. Jan 25, 2008

  • sionnach 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. Jan 25, 2008

  • asativum 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. Jan 24, 2008

  • minerva Has no one been to a rout? Jan 24, 2008

  • goatboy A hooley is an Irish term meaning party

    http://www.hooleys-pub.com/aboutus.html Jan 24, 2008

  • asativum Got bash; what's a hooley? Jan 24, 2008

  • goatboy Or a bash Jan 24, 2008

  • goatboy You can't beat a good hooley Jan 24, 2008

  • mollusque Have a callithumpian good time with it! Jan 24, 2008

  • asativum Oh man, how could I have lived this long without benefit of the word callithump?! Jan 24, 2008

  • mollusque How about a callithump? Jan 24, 2008

  • reesetee 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.... ;-) Jan 23, 2008

  • minerva How about a rout? Jan 23, 2008

  • asativum 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. Jan 23, 2008

  • sionnach 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? Jan 23, 2008

  • asativum 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? Jan 23, 2008

  • mollusque Is party too pedestrian? How about barn-raising and gabfest? Jan 23, 2008

  • asativum Excellent. Thanks, reesetee! And to leave you a spare "c" or two, I used "k" for kaffee klatsch. Jan 23, 2008

  • reesetee Nifty! Clambake? Coffee klatch? Conclave? (Don't ask me why all these "c" words popped into my head.) Jan 23, 2008

  • asativum Good one -- thanks! Jan 23, 2008

  • skipvia I've always loved ceilidh, both as a word and as an event. Jan 23, 2008