donnybrookian

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

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

    澳大利亚 加拿大 新西兰 美国

    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!

词源

From donnybrook + -ian.

来源:wiktionary