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Fracas vs Barney - What's the difference?

fracas | barney |

As nouns the difference between fracas and barney

is that fracas is a noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap while barney is a noisy argument.

As a proper noun Barney is

a given name derived from surnames, and a diminutive of Barnabas, Barnaby, Bernard, or Barnett.

As a verb barney is

to argue, to quarrel.

fracas

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
  • * 1989 , , 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 , , 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 * kerfuffle * melee

    barney

    Translingual

    Proper noun

    (mul-proper noun)
  • A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist E.E. Barney (fl. 1877-79).

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    * Author query of the International Plant Names Index ----