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brawl (v.)[brawl 词源字典]: late 14c., braulen "to cry out, scold, quarrel," probably related to Dutch brallen "to boast," or from French brailler "to shout noisily," frequentative of braire "to bray" (see bray (v.)). Meaning "quarrel, wrangle, squabble" is from early 15c. Related: Brawled; brawling.[brawl etymology, brawl origin, 英语词源]
donnybrook (n.): 1852, from Donnybrook Fair, proverbial for carousing and brawling, held in County Dublin until 1855.
fractious (adj.): "apt to quarrel," 1725, from fraction in an obsolete sense of "a brawling, discord" (c. 1500) + -ous; probably on model of captious. Related: Fractiously; fractiousness.