Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

donnybrookian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: don-ny-brookian
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

Australian usage; Canadian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage

Example Sentences

"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!"

Etymology

From donnybrook + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: donnybrook

Usage

Inflected Forms

more donnybrookian (comparative) most donnybrookian (superlative)

Questions

What does donnybrookian mean?: Of or pertaining to a donnybrook; bellicose; disconcerted; raucous; clashing.
Where does donnybrookian come from?: From donnybrook + -ian.

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