Citations:shemozzle

English citations of shamozzle, shemozzle, and shlemozzle

Noun: "state of chaos"

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1899, Arthur Morris Binstead, Houndsditch Day By Day; republished as The Works of Arthur M. Binstead‎, volume 2, London: T. Werner Laurie, 1922, page 23:
It was through no recklessness or extravagance that he was in this shlemozzle; simply Isaac was not a top-weight of finance.
1900, From the Front:
We might look upon this little chimozzle as a kind of misunderstanding.
1918, Escott Lynn, “How the Road was Barred”, in Knights of the Air‎, London: W. & R. Chambers, page 341:
Towards evening Billy, Douglas, and Nat were sheltering in a shallow trench. They had fought like Trojans the whole day.¶ 'Some chimozzle this, boys!' said Nat.¶ 'It'll be some disaster soon if we don't get reinforcements," said Billy wearily.
1930, Francis Beeding, The Six Proud Walkers:
"You come along with me," said the stranger, "there will be the very deuce of a shamozzle in a moment. Hie, there, cabby, wake up. Give Morpheus the go-by and get a move on."
1930, Norman Garstin, Empty Hands:
Maybe if I hadn't listened to your tamned rubbish about making gentlemen and ladies out of the children, there wouldn't have been all this shimozzel....
1962, Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side:
"No end of a shemozzle there’s been there lately," he said. "Marina Gregg's been having hysterics most days. Said some coffee she was given was poisoned."
1967, Owen Tweedy, Gathering Moss:
Also Lloyd was on a volcano. If he had a row with the Ministry, and the Ministry, without consulting him or resigning, went to Parliament and told them the story and asked for a vote of confidence, they would get it. And then Lloyd would be up against the country with a vengeance and the only thing he could do would be to dissolve the Parliament and that would be a chemozzle and a half and Lloyd would have to put his case very well to get support in London.
1985, Geoffrey Wagner, The Sands of Valor:
And then on the last cross-country exercise we did he lost his troop. Hell of a schimozzle. Brigadier mad as a monkey. I wouldn't choose Mark Yures if I were you.
1994, Thomas R. Verny, Gifts of our Fathers:
She hung onto the table to stop from falling down, her face al creased up wiv it. Then Grandad begin to see the funny side of it too, and he spits out his wad of dog-ends into the fireplace so's he can let out a giggle. Soon we was all laughing, all rolling on the floor in a proper cockney schlemozzle, hugging and crying.
2009 April 6, Open Addict , “Malaysia Grand Prix 2009”, in GTPlanet‎:
Sucks not having HD, Stayed up unitl 1:30 am to see them cancel, what a shimozzel. But i guess there were tv audiences and commercial's that needed to be shown.
2017 June 23, Charles Moore, “This country has come through many a crisis, but this one is a true shemozzle”, in The Telegraph‎:
I always found it helpful that we retained one elderly member of staff who could offer a different perspective. “Well,” he would begin, “the last time we had one of these shemozzles…”. The mere fact that he could remember past disasters – and had lived to tell the tale – was reassuring.
2018 March 24, Alice Vincent, “How to make the most of window boxes - the ultimate urban gardening hack”, in The Telegraph‎:
A rudimental collection of complimentary plants that suit their environs (shelter and dappled shade with a backdrop of trees), rather than a schmozzle of suck-it-and-see.

Noun: "a quarrel"

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1901, Arthur Morris Binstead, More Gal's Gossip; republished as The Works of Arthur M. Binstead‎, volume 2, London: T. Werner Laurie, 1922, page 154:
Speaking of hasty and imprudent marriages, by the way, all the men in their clubs are laughing immoderately over the "ghastly shlemozzle,"as Charlie calls it, at Clackmannan Castle the other day when the headstrong young Viscount Glenalmond took his music-hall bride home for presentation to his lady mother, the Dowager Duchess of Perthshire.
1901, James Maclaren Cobban, The Golden Tooth:
If Will comes out of this shemozzle.
1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
[…] but tarned long and then a nation louder, while engaged in swallowing from a large ampullar, that his pawdry's purgatory was more than nigger bloke could bear, hemiparalysed by the tong warfare and all the shemozzle, (Daily Maily, fullup Lace! Holy Maly, Mothelup Joss!) his cheeks and trousers changing colour every time a gat croaked.
c. 1965, Joe Kennedy, quoting McGahern, John, “McGahern, the banned book and the censored interview”, in The Irish Independent‎, published 2015:
I returned to London and, in a little over four weeks, returned to Dublin to see the manager. Practically the first words he said to me were: 'What entered your head to write such a book? You caused a terrible shemozzle. I couldn't take you back after that. There'd be an uproar.'
2011, Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer: A Novel, →ISBN, page 336:
A boy with pin wheels stuck to his ears is lucky to have anyone, never mind my lovely Channaleh. But then I was lucky to be invited. The whole shlemozzle at the party after, too. Some party!
2014 June 11, Mark Farrelly, “23 Essential GAA Phrases You Need To Know To Be Considered A True Fan”, in Balls.ie‎, Balls Media Ltd, retrieved 2 May 2018, Shemozzle:
A shemozzle is a row on a GAA pitch that is more serious than handbags but not as violent as a fraca or a melee. Consider it like this: if there is more than two people involved in the row then it's at least a shemozzle, however if a headbutt or a dangerous punch is thrown then it's worse than a shemozzle. When subs, fans or members of management get involved then the row officially takes on the term 'shameful scenes.'
2018 February 8, Ian O'Riordan, “GAA Congress to separate a melee and a shemozzle”, in The Irish Times‎:
When does a melee actually become a melee? And what differentiates a melee from a shemozzle and a free-for-all? Or indeed minor physical interference? Hardly the most pressing of national matters, but probably the most interesting question going before Congress later this month.

Verb: "to run away"

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1944, W H Auden, “When the Sex War ended”, in For the Time Being:
When the Vice Crusades were over he was hired by some Muscovites / Prospecting for deodorants among the Eskimos; / He was caught by a common cold and condemned to the whiskey mines, / But schemozzled back to the Army.

Citations:shemozzle

English citations of shamozzle, shemozzle, and shlemozzle

Noun: "state of chaos"

Noun: "a quarrel"

Verb: "to run away"

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