donnybrook
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A ` semi-trailer, 'called an articulated lorry in Britain and New Zealand, is briefly an artic; a ` donnybrook' is a donny; a ` locomotive 'a loci; a ` milkman' a milkie; a ` nappy 'a nap; a ` differential' a diffy.
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- noun An uproar; a free-for-all. See Synonyms at brawl.
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- We stepped out of the elevator and pulled up short by the mail chute because the two brothers were having a donnybrook in the hall. — Murder by Six
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A ` semi-trailer, 'called an articulated lorry in Britain and New Zealand, is briefly an artic; a ` donnybrook' is a donny; a ` locomotive 'a loci; a ` milkman' a milkie; a ` nappy 'a nap; a ` differential' a diffy.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 - He was on the verge of bringing up Maestra's missing-link theory and maybe a word or two about T.day Is T.morrow when it occurred to him that he'd gone tangential, which was accepted, even expected, at a C.R.A.F.T. Club donnybrook but generally unappreciated in ordinary company. — Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
- Then they fight, a knockdown, bare-fisted donnybrook that ends with the cops at the door and the little apartment in shambles. — Little Girl Blue
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It is a Dionysian donnybrook, worthy of the best punch-ups described by Rabelais and Cervantes. [
— Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia
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- After Donnybrook fair, held annually in Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, and noted for its brawls.
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/ (dŏnˈē-bro͝okˌ)/
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