(n.) A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.
Example Sentences:
(1) The political charivari packs its bags and heads off for some faraway place of which we know little, but a quick Wiki check, a google of cuttings and a stroll down the high street soon makes local sociologists of us all.
Skimmington
Definition:
(n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.