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donnybrook | Word of the Day
August 13, 2019
donnybrook
[
don
-ee-br
oo
k]
noun
1.
an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
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donnybrook
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QUOTES
Now the New York hotel and restaurant workers' local is threatening a "
donnybrook
" if it doesn't get a contract at the Portman.
-- , "Portman's New Headache,"
New York
, March 22, 1982
ORIGIN
Donnybrook
is the English spelling of the English pronunciation of Irish
Domhnach Broc
"Church of (St.) Broc."
Domhnach
also means "Sunday" in Irish and comes from Latin
(Diēs) Dominica
"Lord's (Day)." Little is known of St. Broc, who founded a church in the 8th century at the location of Donnybrook Cemetery in Dublin, Ireland. In 1204 the English King John ("famous" for the
Magna Carta
) granted a charter for an annual fair, at first like an American county fair, featuring livestock and produce, but later developing into a carnival, a medieval Irish Coney Island, beset with drunks and brawlers. During the 1790s campaigns against the fair began; prominent citizens purchased the royal charter, and they had the fair shut down in 1866. The Donnybrook Fair grounds are now the Donnybrook Rugby Ground.
Donnybrook
entered English in the mid-19th century.
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