fracas
Noun
- A noisy disturbance or quarrel; a brawl.
- noisy quarrel
- A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
Examples
- The debate over whether FRACAS was a valid word nearly caused a real-life fracas.
Origin / Etymology
From French fracas, derived from fracasser, from Italian fracassare, from fra- + cassare, equivalent to Latin infra + quassare.
Synonyms
affray, altercation, ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight, bust-up, bustle, chaos, clamour, clatter, commotion, disruption, disturbance, flap, foofaraw, fracas, furor, fuss, hobbleshaw, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, kerfuffle, mayhem, merry hell, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, pother, quarrel, riot, rowdydow, ruckus, rumpus, shemozzle, shindy, splatterdash, stir, stooshie, three-ring circus, to-do, tomfoolery, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, uproar, upstir
Scrabble Score: 11
fracas: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfracas: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fracas: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary