Donnybrook Fair

[don-ee-brook]

noun

1. a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.

2. donnybrook.

Example Sentences

To quote the words of one on board the Tiger, it was "a glorified Donnybrook Fair--whenever you see a head, crack it!"

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Cracked souls, and a Donnybrook Fair of the emotions.

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Then he "stands at ease," and relates an anecdote with the rollicking air of a horse-jockey at Donnybrook Fair.

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One is a rollicking Irishman brandishing his shillelagh over his head and trailing his coat on the ground, which is the Irishman’s challenge for a fight at such places as Donnybrook Fair.

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Donnybrook Fair was never anything to the scene we now witnessed.

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