[f. BRAWL v.1 + -ING2.] That brawls: a. Noisily quarrelsome, wrangling; b. Clamorous, noisy, bawling; c. Flowing with noise and commotion, as a brook.
1535. Coverdale, Prov. xix. 13. A braulynge wife is like the topp of an house, where thorow it is euer droppynge.
1591. Ascham, Scholem. (1863), 130. For all … those brauling Bulles of Basan.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 20. The beating mallet upon the brawling metal disquiets him.
1726. Thomson, Winter, 69. The brawling brook And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan.
1820. Scott, Abbot, ii. A brawling ruffian, and a common stabber.
1879. Seguin, Black For., xi. 183. A chasm … through which a narrow brawling trout-stream makes its way.
