donnybrook

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  • Her and her husband have had a donnybrook, they aren't speaking -- it gets a bit tense over there sometimes. —  Cleary, Melissa - Dog Mystery 04 - Skull and Dog Bones
  • "It was a donnybrook," Lt. Ed Baswell said of the Tuesday morning brawl at a residence on Chelsy Drive in Benton.
  • The donnybrook heated up as hundreds of scantily clad brave souls waited to take the plunge into the frigid waters of English Bay. —  London Free Press - News
  • I doubt home-field will matter much in a donnybrook, but Tennessee's glad to have it. —  SI.com
  • The teams who participated in that donnybrook shall remain nameless. —  Beachwood Reporter
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Etymologies (1)

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  1. After Donnybrook fair, held annually in Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, and noted for its brawls.
 

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