Chapter Shemitic to Shingebis of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Shilly Shally A corruption of “Will I, shall I,” or “Shall I, shall I.”

“There's no delay, they ne'er stand shall I, shall I,
Hermogenes with Dallila doth daily.”
Taylor's Workes, iii.3 (1630).

Shimei (2 syl.), in Dryden's satire of Absalom and Achitophel, is designed for Slingsby Bethel, the lord mayor.

“Shimei, whose youth did early promise bring,
Of zeal to God and hatred to his king;
Did wisely from expensive sins refrain,
And never broke the Sabbath but for gain.”
Part 1, lines 548-551.

Shinar The land of the Chaldees.

Shindy A row, a disturbance. To kick up a shindy, to make a row. (Gipsy, chinda, a quarrel.)

Shingebis, in North American Indian mythology, is a diver who dared the North Wind to single combat. The Indian Boreas rated him for staying in his dominions after he had routed away the flowers, and driven off the sea-gulls and herons. Shingebis laughed at him, and the North Wind went at night and tried to blow down his hut and put out his fire. As he could not do this, he defied the diver to come forth and wrestle with him. Shingebis obeyed the summons, and sent the blusterer howling to his home. (Longfellow: Hiawatha.) (See Kabibonokka .)