Crossword clues for brawl
brawl
- Serious fight
- Oater saloon fight
- Crowd fight, all in ...
- Barroom ruckus
- Barroom melee
- Barroom battle
- Bar fight
- What a bouncer might bust up
- Street fight or melee
- Saloon slugfest
- Saloon fight
- Raucous fight
- Quite a fight
- Hockey game interruption
- Engage in fisticuffs
- Best Super Smash Bros. edition by far (and coincidentally the first one I learned)
- Bench-clearing fight
- Bench-clearing event
- Barroom set-to
- Barroom mix-up
- Barroom fisticuffs
- More than a scuffle
- Slugfest in a bar
- Melee
- An uproarious party
- A noisy fight in a crowd
- Altercation
- Free-for-all fight
- Donnybrook
- Many a hockey highlight
- Fracas
- Cry lustily about onset of rough altercation
- Flipping R&B, something that bores The Clash
- Rowdy scuffle
- Rough or noisy fight
- Rough fight
- Big to-do
- Noisy fight
- Big fight
- Wild fight
- Beaning aftermath, sometimes
- Barroom fight
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brawl \Brawl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Brawling.] [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.]
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To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife.
--Golden Boke. To complain loudly; to scold.
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To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
Where the brook brawls along the painful road.
--Wordsworth.Syn: To wrangle; squabble; contend.
Brawl \Brawl\, n. A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.
His sports were hindered by the brawls.
--Shak.
Syn: Noise; quarrel; uproar; row; tumult.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., braulen "to cry out, scold, quarrel," probably related to Dutch brallen "to boast," or from French brailler "to shout noisily," frequentative of braire "to bray" (see bray (v.)). Meaning "quarrel, wrangle, squabble" is from early 15c. Related: Brawled; brawling.
mid-15c., from brawl (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A fight, usually with a large number of people involved. vb. 1 To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. 2 To complain loudly; to scold. 3 To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
WordNet
a noisy fight in a crowd [syn: free-for-all]
v. to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street" [syn: wrangle]
Wikipedia
Brawl is a real-time card game designed by James Ernest and released in 1999 by Cheapass Games. There is an iPhone and iPad version available on the Apple App Store.
Brawl is the name given to several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. He is sometimes called "Decepticon Brawl" in the toy line for trademark purposes.
Brawl or Brawling may refer to:
- Brawl, a large-scale fist fight usually involving multiple participants
- Brawl, Scotland, a crofting community on the north coast of Scotland
- Brawling (legal definition), a rowdy argument on church property
- Bench-clearing brawl, a large-scale fight occurring during a game or match
- Brawl (band), an American hard rock band that was later renamed Disturbed
- Brawl (game), a real-time card game
- Brawl (Transformers), a Transformers character
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a game for Nintendo's Wii video game console
- Branle, a French dance style, pronounced "Brawl"
Usage examples of "brawl".
After fourteen stormy years the two friends, who more than any others were responsible for the launching of the Third Retch, for its terror and its degradation, who though they had often disagreed had stood together in the moments of crisis and defeats and disappointments, had come to a parting of the ways, and the scar-faced, brawling battler for Hitler and Nazism had come to the end of his violent life.
If I leave them they start brangling and brawling and nothing gets done.
If we are but brawling bravos in this land, where will it find peace but in the iron grip of the last tyrant left standing?
Swamped by brawling bodies, Jasmine the druid, never comfortable indoors, found herself stranded as a fish out of water.
Josi had seen enough of the brawling man to understand just how devastating that fight might become.
Fighting and brawling had always been part of the culture of Fenris, and it seemed to be doing the lads good to be able to vent their frustrations in this way.
In short, sir, I swear to you that I will have you arrested, and marched out of the place, to prevent any further brawling on your part.
Going a little to one side, the hillsman pushed through a thick hedge of bushes, rolled away a rock, and disclosed an opening which led down a steep and rough-hewn way to a great misty valley beneath, where was never a bridle-path or causeway over the brawling streams and boulders.
There was no sound anywhere save the brawling water or the lonely cry of the flute-bird.
But why should brawling braggarts rise With hasty words of shame To drive them back like dogs and swine Who in due honor came?
I found her shackled in lower court, facing charges of brawling and property destruction.
The woman had simply ducked, invisibly fast, and Tally had tripped over her like some awkward littlie in a brawl.
Two troopers, one a pock-faced veteran who had spent his years raising malingering to a substantial art, the other a bull with a broad, flat nose smashed in a tavern brawl, had stoked up a fire for drinks, as troopers will do given any short stop.
The sentence had been passed upon him for having stabbed a man in the back, in a drunken brawl, but Masin had steadily denied the charge, and the evidence against him had been merely circumstantial.
While some of the crew staged that street brawl to misdirect any passersby, the others never had to pick no lock.