What's the difference between charivari and skimmington?

Charivari


Definition:

  • (n.) A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.

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  • (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.

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