In German Gipsy we find _chochavav_ and _hochewawa_, and in Roumanian Gipsy _kokao_--a lie.

Hanky-panky and Hocus-pocus are each one half almost pure Hindustani.

{81} A SHINDY approaches so nearly in sound to the Gipsy word _chingaree_, which means precisely the same thing, that the suggestion is at least worth consideration.

And it also greatly resembles _chindi_, which may be translated as "cutting up," and also quarrel.

"To cut up shindies" was the first form in which this extraordinary word reached the public.
In the original Gipsy tongue the word to quarrel is _chinger-av_, meaning also (Pott, _Zigeuner_, p.