- A noisy quarrel or fight.
- A loud party.
- A loud, roaring noise.
- To quarrel or fight noisily.
- To flow noisily, as water.
[Middle English braul, from braullen, to quarrel.]
brawler brawl'er n.brawlingly brawl'ing·ly adv.
SYNONYMS brawl, broil, donnybrook, fracas, fray, free-for-all, melee, row. These nouns denote a noisy, disorderly, and often violent quarrel or fight: a barroom brawl; a broil between the opposing teams; a vicious legal donnybrook; a fracas among prison inmates; eager for the fray; a free-for-all in the schoolyard; police plunging into the melee; an angry domestic row.







