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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
* 1888 , , ‘His Chance in Life’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio 2005), page 56:
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom (Oxford 2003), page 200:
* 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea (Vintage 2003), page 223:
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun donnybrook is
a brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.s
Translingual
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Symbol
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}donnybrook
English
Noun
(en noun)- But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant, Hindus and Muhammadans together raised an aimless sort of Donnybrook just to see how far they could go.
- Sherman's signature caused another donnybrook over the election of a speaker of the House when the 36th Congress convened in December 1859.
- This was no innocuous donnybrook but a veritable carnival of thuggee.
