charivari
noun/ʃɑːɹɪˈvɑːɹi/
Etymology Borrowed from French charivari.
1
The noisy banging of pots and pans as a mock serenade to a newly married couple, or similar occasion.
- The marriage ceremony was given primordial significance over folkloric pre-marriage engagement rituals and wild charivaris.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 94:
2
Broadly Any loud, cacophonous noise or hubbub.
- Synonyms
- rough music, skimmington, skimmity, skimmity-ride
- Derived terms
- charivaric
- Related terms
- shivaree