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donnybrook - 3 dictionary results

don⋅ny⋅brook

[don-ee-brook]
–noun (often initial capital letter)
an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
Also called Donnybrook Fair.


Origin:
1850–55; after Donnybrook (Fair)
don·ny·brook   (dŏn'ē-brŏŏk')   
n.  An uproar; a free-for-all. See Synonyms at brawl.

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

donnybrook 
1852, from Donnybrook Fair, proverbial for carousing and brawling, held in County Dublin until 1855.
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