Brawl
[brɔːl] or [brɔl]
Definition
(noun.) a noisy fight in a crowd.
(verb.) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; 'The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street'.
Typist: Vern--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
(v. i.) To complain loudly; to scold.
(v. i.) To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
(n.) A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.
Edited by Anselm
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Quarrel (noisily), dispute (angrily).[2]. Roar, resound.
n. Quarrel, wrangle, dispute, uproar, broil, altercation, fracas, squabble, fray, AFFRAY, feud, tumult, disturbance, row, BOBBERY, MÊLÉE. RUMPUS, outbreak.
Typist: Tabitha
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wrangle, broil, scold, roar, shout, vociferate
ANT:Whisper, softness, mellowness, melodiousness, intonation
Checker: Thomas
Definition
n. a kind of French dance.
n. a noisy quarrel.—v.i. to quarrel noisily: to murmur or gurgle.—n. Brawl′ing the act of quarrelling noisily.—adj. quarrelsome: noisy.
Editor: Wilma
Examples
- A British subject was killed in a street brawl, and a Japanese town was bombarded by the British (1863). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He does not take a drink so that he may become an habitual drunkard, or be locked up in jail, or get into a brawl, or lose his job, or go insane. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I would not brawl in the presence of death, but I can assure you that if I were a younger man your monstrous conduct would not pass with impunity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was not only a professional peacemaker, but from practice a hater of all feuds and brawls. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Oliver, whose days had been spent among squalid crowds, and in the midst of noise and brawling, seemed to enter on a new existence there. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- No brawling, said the Knight, it is but a friendly interchange of courtesy. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Edited by Elvis