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reserv888reserv888 Posts: 1,164
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What would be the best word in english to describe the following situation.

A typical fantasy inn with some adventureres and some villagers drinking, laughing and having a good time in general.
Suddenly there are raised voices and clenched fists. Accusations of cheating in a dice or card game, are thrown. A few of the participants start to punch each other.
No one dies or anything, but chairs are broken and some nosebleed is likely to occur.

What would you call this sudden outburst of anger and (mild) violence? Google translate suggest "riot" but that seems wrong to me.

I am looking primarily for a noun, not a verb.

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,215
    edited November 2018

    Not English but Scottish :)

    stooshie

    /ˈstʊʃi/

    noun

    INFORMAL•SCOTTISH

    1. a row or fracas.

     " There was a right stooshie going on in the corner."

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  • BlueIreneBlueIrene Posts: 1,318

    I think we'd just call it a 'punch-up'.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,215

    Brawl would cover it too

    Another Scottish word would be.

    stramash in British

    (strəˈmæʃ  ) Scottish

    noun1. 

    an uproar; tumult; brawl

    verb (transitive)2. 

    to destroy; smash

  • Cayman StudiosCayman Studios Posts: 1,138

    You could try brouhaha.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Ah   you mean they was having a right old barney.

     

  • nattaruknattaruk Posts: 547

    A brawl.

    Typically a bar brawl or drunken brawl.

    Maybe also a fracas or an affray, although these are more legalistic; eg 'the defendant was charged with causing an affray'.

  • ChangelingChickChangelingChick Posts: 3,363
    nattaruk said:

    A brawl.

    Typically a bar brawl or drunken brawl.

    Maybe also a fracas or an affray, although these are more legalistic; eg 'the defendant was charged with causing an affray'.

    This one. For 'muricans at least. Or bar fight. Or, here in Texas, Friday night.

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    Brawl is the best one. Fracas would be an alternative.

  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,744

    +1 for either the "punch-up" or the "brawl" in UK English

  • BamboozlerBamboozler Posts: 249

    Fisticuffs. Bar fight. Punch-up.Trading punches. Scuffle.

  • reserv888reserv888 Posts: 1,164
    edited November 2018

    Thanks a lot everyone for your fast replies and great suggestions! You're the best!

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,845
    ChangelingChick said:
    nattaruk said:

    A brawl.

    Typically a bar brawl or drunken brawl.

    Maybe also a fracas or an affray, although these are more legalistic; eg 'the defendant was charged with causing an affray'.

    This one. For 'muricans at least. Or bar fight. Or, here in Texas, Friday night.

    We must be hanging at the same bars here in Texas, LOL.

  • Canary3dCanary3d Posts: 2,033

    "Brawl" would be the most common word here in the midwestern USA, but I'm partial to the less-common "donnybrook."

  • ChangelingChickChangelingChick Posts: 3,363
    FSMCDesigns said:
    ChangelingChick said:
    nattaruk said:

    A brawl.

    Typically a bar brawl or drunken brawl.

    Maybe also a fracas or an affray, although these are more legalistic; eg 'the defendant was charged with causing an affray'.

    This one. For 'muricans at least. Or bar fight. Or, here in Texas, Friday night.

    We must be hanging at the same bars here in Texas, LOL.

    You near Cut 'n Shoot? :D

     

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,845
    ChangelingChick said:
    FSMCDesigns said:
    ChangelingChick said:
    nattaruk said:

    A brawl.

    Typically a bar brawl or drunken brawl.

    Maybe also a fracas or an affray, although these are more legalistic; eg 'the defendant was charged with causing an affray'.

    This one. For 'muricans at least. Or bar fight. Or, here in Texas, Friday night.

    We must be hanging at the same bars here in Texas, LOL.

    You near Cut 'n Shoot? :D

     

    Grew up near there (Bryan), have a sister in the Woodlands and worked for 5 years after high school at the Texas Renaissance Festival. I dated girls from Magnolia (first GF), Conroe and Spring and have relatives in Huntsville. I actually got in my first bar fight down the road from the fair when I was 18 at a hole in the wall we went to, LOL.

  • PetraPetra Posts: 1,157

    I would say brawl.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    reserv888 said:
    What would you call this sudden outburst of anger and (mild) violence?

    Sounds like an unusually quiet night at the Mended Drum.  

    (For non-Pratchett fans; imagine a distillation of every single tavern, pub, bar and watering hole in the entire realm of fantasy writing.)

  • FWIWFWIW Posts: 320

    Definitely agreeing with Scuffle, or Brawl, although I have also heard Kerfluffle

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