different between disorderly vs fracas

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???.d?.li/

Adjective

disorderly (comparative more disorderly, superlative most disorderly)

1. Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.

   The books and papers are in a disorderly state.

2. Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
3. Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.

   disorderly people; disorderly assemblies

4. (law) Offensive to good morals and public decency.

   a disorderly house

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

disorderly (plural disorderlies)

1. A person who acts in a disorderly manner.
   • 1843, Parliamentary Papers (volumes 25-26, page 140)

     The police are allowed one shilling a-head upon all disorderlies who are discharged by the magistrates upon payment of expenses. The number so discharged are about a third of the number in custody.

Adverb

disorderly (comparative more disorderly, superlative most disorderly)

1. In a confused or lawless manner.

Anagrams

• disordrely

English

Etymology

From French fracas, derived from fracasser, from Italian fracassare, from fra- + cassare, equivalent to Latin infra + quassare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?æk??/, /f???k??/
  • Plural: IPA^(key): /?f?æk??z/, /f???k??z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?e?k?s/, /?f?æk?s/

Noun

fracas (plural fracases or fracas)

1. A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
   • 1989, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,

     And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas, if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.

   • 1964, Philip K. Dick, The Simulacra, Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,

     The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.

Synonyms

• brouhaha
• donnybrook
• kerfuffle
• melee

Related terms

• quash

Translations

Anagrams

• Frasca, carsaf

French

Etymology

Probably an independent derivation from fracasser, from Italian fracassare. Alternatively directly borrowed from Italian fracasso, from the same verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?a.k?/

Noun

fracas m (plural fracas)

1. crash
2. din, roar

Descendants

• ? English: fracas

Further reading

• “fracas” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Adjective

fracas

1. feminine plural of fraco

Portuguese

Adjective

fracas

1. feminine plural of fraco