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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'donnybrook' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions donnybrook noun  A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos. 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "His Chance in Life", Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 56: :But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant, Hindus and Muhammadans together raised an aimless sort of Donnybrook just to see how far they could go. 2003, Robert Casemore, Gold Is Where You Find It, Xlibris 2003, p. 47: :The regulars here, includin' me, put up a real to save the place. Etymology: Named from w:Donnybrook, Dublin, Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, the site of a notoriously disorderly annual fair.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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