Meaning of donnybrookian | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to a donnybrook; bellicose; disconcerted; raucous; clashing.

Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US

Examples

“Hereupon Ted drew forth his cudgel, hit the Turk a donnybrookian whack over the skull that laid him flat on the ground, and took to his heels.”

“The favourite device of one of the Indian desert foxes here is of a donnybrookian flavour.”

“All at once we find the irrepressible Count of Poitou in the thick of the fray, for no reason whatever that I can discover, except, may be, a general donnybrookian tendency to take part in any fight that is going!”

CEFR level