E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Chariva’ri.
The clatter made with pots and pans, whistling, bawling, hissing, and so on. Our concert of “marrow-bones and cleavers”; the German Katzenmusik, got up to salute with ridicule unequal marriages. Punch is our national Charivari, and clatters weekly against political and social wrong-sidedness.
