"donnybrookian" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From donnybrook + -ian.",
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      "form": "more donnybrookian",
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      "form": "most donnybrookian",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2012, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City: A Tale of the Pirates of the City of Algiers, and Their Defeat by the British Navy, The Floating Press, page 256",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Arthur Morrison, The Complete Works of Arthur Morrison, Delphi Classics - Series 6, (unpaginated)",
          "text": "The favourite device of one of the Indian desert foxes here is of a donnybrookian flavour."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1878, George Murray Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine - Volume 37, Periodical Publication, page 87",
          "text": "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!"
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        "Of or pertaining to a donnybrook; bellicose; disconcerted; raucous; clashing."
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        "(chiefly US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Of or pertaining to a donnybrook; bellicose; disconcerted; raucous; clashing."
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        "Australia",
        "Canada",
        "New-Zealand",
        "US"
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  "word": "donnybrookian"
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  "etymology_text": "From donnybrook + -ian.",
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    {
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          "ref": "2012, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City: A Tale of the Pirates of the City of Algiers, and Their Defeat by the British Navy, The Floating Press, page 256",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Arthur Morrison, The Complete Works of Arthur Morrison, Delphi Classics - Series 6, (unpaginated)",
          "text": "The favourite device of one of the Indian desert foxes here is of a donnybrookian flavour."
        },
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          "ref": "1878, George Murray Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine - Volume 37, Periodical Publication, page 87",
          "text": "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!"
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        "(chiefly US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Of or pertaining to a donnybrook; bellicose; disconcerted; raucous; clashing."
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