donnybrook
don·ny·brook
donnybrook · donnybrooks
A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaosA brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
/ˈdɒnɪbɹʊk/
» The insults and threats gave way to a donnybrook.
rafaeld4 · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesA brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
Examples
1 sentencesThe insults and threats gave way to a donnybrook.
Origin
Named from Donnybrook Fair, a notoriously disorderly event, held annually from 1204 untilNamed from Donnybrook Fair, a notoriously disorderly event, held annually from 1204 until the middle of the 19th century. The town of Donnybrook comes from the Irish Domhnach Broc (“The Church of Saint Broc”).
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Forms
plural: donnybrooks| Singular | donnybrook |
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Word family
1 related wordsDeriveddonnybrookian
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.