Sekirov Dictionary

brawl

/bɹɔːl/

verb 5
noun 2
forms 5

verb5

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To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
- I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: [...] — 1593
•
Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise.
- To day my Lord of Amiens, and my selfe, / Did steale behinde him as he lay along / Vnder an oake, whose anticke roote peepes out / Vpon the brooke that brawles along this wood, [...] — 1598
•
To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.
- Say beggar, why brawlest þou? go boune þe to þe barre. — 1885
To pour abuse on; to scold.
(no longer used) To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.

noun2

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A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
- Three Ciuell brawles bred of an airie word, / By the old Capulet and Mountague, / Haue thrice disturbd the quiet of our streets. — 1591
(no longer used) A type of dance move or step.

forms

brawled · brawling · brawleth · brawls · brawlest

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