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▪ I. brawling, vbl. n.1|ˈbrɔːlɪŋ|
[f. brawl v.1]
1. Noisy quarrelling; wrangling; contention, ‘row’.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xvii. 360 For brawelynge and bac⁓bytynge and beryng of false wittnesse. c1440Promp. Parv. 48/1 Brawlynge, jurgium. 1661Bramhall Just Vind. vi. 154 That insana laurus, which causeth brawling and contention. 1657S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 40 Soldiers forging ale-house brawlings.
2. Clamour; indecent or offensive noise; scolding.
c1440York Myst. xxx. 142 Þat boy for his brawlyng Were bettir be vn-borne. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 64 My braulyng at home, makith him banket abrode. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 43 Your unmeasurable braulyng hath altogether weryed me. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 6 Peace ye fat-kidney'd Rascall, what a brawling dost thou keepe. 1794Burke Imp. W. Hastings Wks. XVI. 78 Noise and brawlings of criminals..raving at the magistrate. 1883Congregationalist May 387 A procedure which was brawling in church, and a brawling of a very bad type.
3. The confused din of a stream or torrent.
1837Hawthorne Amer. Note Bks. (1871) I. 59 No noise but the brawling..of the stream. 1859Jephson Brittany ix. 139, I could hear the brawling of the little river beneath. 1884Gilmour Mongols 153 The brawling of the torrent rose mingled with the sound of the flail.
▪ II. † ˈbrawling, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. brawl v.2 + -ing1.]
Motion from side to side, quivering.
a1400Morte Arth. 2176 Þat braste at þe brawlyng, and brake in þe myddys!
▪ III. brawling, ppl. a.|ˈbrɔːlɪŋ|
[f. brawl v.1 + -ing2.]
That brawls: a. Noisily quarrelsome, wrangling; b. Clamorous, noisy, bawling; c. Flowing with noise and commotion, as a brook.
1535Coverdale Prov. xix. 13 A braulynge wife is like the topp of an house, where thorow it is euer droppynge. 1591R. Ascham Scholem. (1863) 130 For all.. those brauling Bulles of Basan. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 20 The beating mallet upon the brawling metal disquiets him. 1726Thomson Winter 69 The brawling brook And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan. 1820Scott Abbot ii, A brawling ruffian, and a common stabber. 1879Seguin Black For. xi. 183 A chasm..through which a narrow brawling trout-stream makes its way. |