Crossword clues for ruction
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruction \Ruc"tion\, n. An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"disturbance," 1825, dialectal or colloquial, of unknown origin. Perhaps from eruption or an altered shortening of insurrection.
Wiktionary
n. A noisy quarrel or fight.
WordNet
Usage examples of "ruction".
We were happy with one another as birds of the same nest, till the ruction came on betwixt the black and the white angels.
And doing my work well, the innate justice of the men, assisted by their wholesome dislike for a clawing and rending wild-cat ruction, soon led them to give over their hectoring.
This second murder would cause enough ruction without her adding to it.
After that Frances had wandered the Middle East and the ructions she caused were a powerful factor in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism.
The skewbald Cappadocian mistook that for a signal to exert himself and for a minute there were ructions while his master reined him in.
She wore her blue petticoat and her brown shawl whin she went away this morning, and I always expect ructions whin she puts on that shuit of clothes.
In that kind of climate it would have caused endless complications and ructions for UNSA to be seen as giving official backing to a relatively unheard-of free-lancer, and Caldwell was enough of a politician to stay out of it.
They sho did git mad, but nobody seemed to know who started that ruction.
After that Frances had wandered the Middle East and the ructions she caused were a powerful factor in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism.