fracas
pronunciation
How to pronounce fracas in British English:
UK ['frækɑ:]
How to pronounce fracas in American English:
US [ˈfreɪkəs]
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- Noun:
- noisy quarrel
Word Origin
- fracas (n.)
- 1727, from French fracas "crash, sudden noise; tumult, bustle, fuss" (15c.), from Italian fracasso "uproar, crash," back-formation from fracassare "to smash, crash, break in pieces," from fra-, a shortening of Latin infra "below" (see infra-) + Italian cassare "to break," from Latin quassare "to shake" (see quash).
Example
- 1. Woman killed by flying bottle in pub fracas .
- 2. Sunday 's fracas was one of the largest outbreaks of unrest in the company 's almost 40-year history .
- 3. As the fracas in washington has shown , not even the u.s. government can be seen as completely risk-free .
- 4. They got involved in another fracas .
- 5. The police were called in to break up the fracas .