Crossword clues for donnybrook
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852, from Donnybrook Fair, proverbial for carousing and brawling, held in County Dublin until 1855.
Wiktionary
n. A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 46
Land area (2000): 0.700528 sq. miles (1.814360 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.700528 sq. miles (1.814360 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19900
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.510014 N, 101.885410 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58734
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Donnybrook
Wikipedia
Donnybrook may refer to:
Placenames-
Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland
- site of the original Donnybrook Fair
- donnybrook is a brawl - named for the fair
- Donnybrook Stadium, Ireland, a rugby union stadium
- site of the original Donnybrook Fair
- Donnybrook Quarter, United Kingdom, a residential area in the Bow area of London's East End
- Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Donnybrook, North Dakota, United States
- Donnybrook, Oregon, United States
- Donnybrook, Queensland, Australia
- Donnybrook, Western Australia
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Donnybrook, Victoria, Australia
- Donnybrook railway station, Victoria, Australia
Donnybrook may also refer to:
- Donnybrook!, a 1961 Broadway musical
- Donnybrook Writing Academy, a society blog based in Denver
Usage examples of "donnybrook".
He yawned most of the journey to Donnybrook where he nicked a red light at fifty-five, slowed a little for the bend and sped up again along Morehampton Road.
There were uniformed Guards from Donnybrook and Harcourt Street up and down the banks now.
Depending on things, Harcourt Terrace and Donnybrook stations take turns at cleaning up the trade.
Things were hotting up nicely and I was whipping out through Donnybrook heading for the Montrose hotel.
Just past the rank a chap walking towards Donnybrook flagged me down, so I stopped, figuring he must be heading my way.
Suitably rehearsed, the groups converge in Donnybrook, most opting for the forecourt of the Shell garage and the surrounding premises to join up with each other.
I was going up Leeson Street, heading for Donnybrook, when a guy on the bridge flagged me down.
The fight on Henry House Hill was a donnybrook between half-crazed volunteers.
I was born in the city of Dublin, that is in the village of Donnybrook, as I tould your hanner before.
Orange processions and walkings, there were Papist processions and mobs, which made me afraid to stir out, lest knowing me for an Orange fiddler, they should break my head, as the boys broke my leg at Donnybrook fair.
Divil in my patten if I would not go back to Donnybrook and Dublin, hoist the Orange cockade, and become as good an Orange boy as ever.
Your lads are fine in a donnybrook, but none of them has the knack for sniffing around and finding out things.
It was odd that the literary festival should be turned into a Donnybrook fair, but so it was when I was a boy, and the tents and the shows and the crowds on the Common were to the promiscuous many the essential parts of the great occasion.
Stunned at my own salvation, I turned its instrument in my hand: of newer manufacture than the Erytus model, its reliefs depicted the earlier donnybrook in that same hall.
Blackrock and Donnybrook stations were the closest, unless there were cars out on the road ahead.