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brawl

brɔl
WordNet
Cote pali dress Broached from St. Anne's stores, Brawl's straw hat adorned with phanes, from Mme. Larochelle's stores
Cote pali dress Broached from St. Anne's stores, Brawl's straw hat adorned with phanes, from Mme. Larochelle's stores
  1. (v) brawl
    to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street"
  2. (n) brawl
    a noisy fight in a crowd
  3. (n) brawl
    an uproarious party
Illustrations
Winter: a brawl on a frozen canal near a windmill.
Winter: a brawl on a frozen canal near a windmill.
Fighting farmers near a village. A big brawl between farmers is going on in front of an inn on a hill. Some travelers continue on the right.
Fighting farmers near a village
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Brawl
    To complain loudly; to scold.
  2. Brawl
    To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. "Where the brook brawls along the painful road."
  3. Brawl
    To quarrel noisily and outrageously. "Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. brawl
    To speak loudly and complainingly or angrily; be clamorous or noisy; quarrel noisily and indecently.
  2. brawl
    To roar, as water flowing over a pebbly or rocky bed; make a loud babbling noise.
  3. brawl
    Synonyms To wrangle, squabble, dispute (noisily).
  4. brawl
    To wrangle about; be noisy or contentious regarding.
  5. brawl
    To drive away or beat down by noise.
  6. (n) brawl
    A kind of dance; a branle.
  7. (n) brawl
    See braul.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Brawl
    brawl a noisy quarrel
  2. (v.i) Brawl
    to quarrel noisily: to murmur or gurgle
  3. (adj) Brawl
    quarrelsome: noisy
  4. (n) Brawl
    brawl a kind of French dance.
Quotations
Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.
Proverb
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. braulen, to quarrel, boast, brallen, to cry, make a noise; cf. LG. brallen, to brag, MHG. pr,ulen, G. prahlen, F. brailler, to cry, shout, Pr. brailar, braillar, W. bragal, to vociferate, brag, Armor. bragal, to romp, to strut, W. broliaw, to brag, brawl, boast. 95

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr. braule.

Usage in the news

The Baymen took apart archrival Southampton at home Friday night in a game marred by an ugly brawl. indyeastend.com

Bellarmine wins backyard brawl against Auburn. thenewstribune.com

LONDON (AP) — UEFA imposed heavy sanctions on Serbia on Thursday for an on-pitch brawl and its fans' racial abuse of England players at an ill-tempered under-21s match. newsok.com

Outfielder takes out unsuspecting base runner as massive brawl breaks out during a youth baseball game . flafm.com

Authorities investigating mass brawl at Santa Rosa basketball game . team4news.com

Brawl gives the word ' battled ' meaning. espn.go.com

It's A NASCAR Brawl Beatdown . 101kgb.com

MWR apologizes for team behavior in Phoenix brawl. democratandchronicle.com

Brown, girlfriend and bodyguard injured in brawl. abclocal.go.com

Police cordon off a road near Foxconn's plant in Taiyuan, China, in September after a brawl by as many as 2,000 employees injured 40 people. forbes.com

Three players were ejected for an on-field brawl in the fourth quarter of the Cincinnati Bengals ' 34-10 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, leaving them in line for major fines. local12.com

Bengals left tackle Andrew Whitworth ran up to Houston, their facemasks hit and the brawl was on. local12.com

CINCINNATI (AP) — Three players were ejected for an on-field brawl in the fourth quarter of the Cincinnati Bengals ' 34-10 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, leaving them in line for major fines. hiznews.com

Gabriel Aubry won't be charged in Halle Berry fiance brawl. cbsnews.com

Soccer players brawl after big game . visaliatimesdelta.com

Usage in literature

I shall have to lodge a complaint against you for brawling. "The Passenger from Calais" by Arthur Griffiths

Poor sheepskin, how it brawls with him that beateth it! "A Study of Shakespeare" by Algernon Charles Swinburne

If the meeting could end in a brawl the odds would be in favor of Tillotson. "The Gay Cockade" by Temple Bailey

Rocco was killed by Amilcare Orsini, a bastard of the Count of Pitigliano, in a brawl at night. "Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2" by John Addington Symonds

At the same time, Samuel lived in a very fast age, an age when pleasure was a business, and "old Rowley, the king," led the brawls. "Lost Leaders" by Andrew Lang

The fact that Proms at other colleges are brawls, too, doesn't make ours any more respectable. "The Plastic Age" by Percy Marks

He hated brawling, acrimonious dispute. "Poor Man's Rock" by Bertrand W. Sinclair

The stream began to brawl; on either hand the hills closed in, towering high. "Foes" by Mary Johnston

You must have seen him in a common street brawl! "The Furnace of Gold" by Philip Verrill Mighels

He did not know but that this was a preliminary to an attempt to rob him, and he was in no mood for a brawl. "Adrien Leroy" by Charles Garvice

Usage in poetry
Hard lot of mine! my days are cast
Among the sons of strife,
Whose never-ceasing brawling waste
My golden hours of life.
"Psalm 120" by Isaac Watts Author object (310)
Which makes appear the songs I made
As echoes out of weaker times,
As half but idle brawling rhymes,
The sport of random sun and shade.
"In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131" by Alfred Lord Tennyson Author object (27)
Which makes appear the songs I made
As echoes out of weaker times,
As half but idle brawling rhymes,
The sport of random sun and shade.
"In Memoriam 131: O Living Will That Shalt Endure" by Alfred Lord Tennyson Author object (27)
SICK of the crowd, the toil, the strife,
Sweet Nature, how I turn to thee,
Seeking for renovated life,
By brawling brook and shady tree!
"Flight To Nature" by William Gilmore Simms Author object (704)
Young Mary stole along the vale,
To keep her tryst with Ulnor's lord;
A warrior clad in coat of mail
Stood darkling by the brawling ford.
"Mary's Tryst" by Isabella Valancy Crawford Author object (312)
"I take possession of man's mind and deed.
I care not what the sects may brawl.
I sit as God holding no form of creed,
But contemplating all." *
"The Palace of Art" by Alfred Lord Tennyson Author object (27)