Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of quarreling specifically, in English law, the offense of quarreling or creating a disturbance in a church or churchyard.
- Contentious; quarrelsome; noisy.
- Making the noise of rushing water; as, “brawling springs,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy.
- adjective Making a loud confused noise. See
Brawl , v. i., 3.
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- verb Present participle of
brawl .
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Examples
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The brawling is careless in the choreography department, but then again, it is in the movies, too.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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But once you begin brawling in Midway's Mortal Kombat vs. D.C. Universe, you learn it ...
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The brawling is careless in the choreography department, but then again, it is in the movies, too.
TV Review: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 2008
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Although there were no more cucU, with what face dare they call a brawling court the iudgement of the Church?
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The process will be messy, as democracy always is, but the brawling is a sign of progress.
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And I think this is putting democracy to a real test and leadership on both sides, leaders on both sides need to step up and put an end to these disruptive kind of brawling, physically violent sessions.
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These Belootchees are a kind of brawling, good-for-nothing Janizaries.
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Board, he said it was exactly this kind of brawling which had brought about the collapse of Codesa a year ago.
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He said the only way to improve the country's situation was to stop the "brawling" between the ANC and the National Party.
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'A case of that unbridled brawling which is, alas, but too common in our London streets.
Psmith in the City 1928
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