brawl
noun
[ brɔːl ]
• a rough or noisy fight or quarrel.
• "he'd got into a drunken brawl in a bar"
Similar:
fight,
fist fight,
skirmish,
scuffle,
tussle,
fracas,
scrimmage,
fray,
melee,
rumpus,
altercation,
wrangle,
clash,
free-for-all,
scrum,
brouhaha,
commotion,
uproar,
fisticuffs,
rough and tumble,
donnybrook,
affray,
scrap,
dust-up,
set-to,
shindy,
punch-up,
bust-up,
ruck,
bit of argy-bargy,
afters,
rammy,
swedge,
square go,
roughhouse,
brannigan,
stoush,
broil,
bagarre,
brawl
verb
• fight or quarrel in a rough or noisy way.
• "he ended up brawling with a lout outside his house"
Similar:
fight,
skirmish,
scuffle,
tussle,
exchange blows,
come to blows,
struggle,
grapple,
wrestle,
scrimmage,
scrap,
have a dust-up,
have a set-to,
have a punch-up,
swedge,
roughhouse,
stoush,
go the knuckle,
Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps ultimately imitative and related to bray1.