What's the difference between baloney and brawl?

Baloney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Female columnists have not been kind to the group in retrospect; Caitlin Moran basically blamed "Girl Power" for the loss of interest in feminism, while Grace Dent went further by saying that "any student in 2012 who regurgitates this Spice Girls-helped-feminism baloney in a dissertation should have the whole thing shredded and be made to wear a dunce cone in graduation pics".
  • (2) Sapin, in a French twist on Johnson’s “baloney” jibe, said: “There are four freedoms and they cannot be separated.
  • (3) This is pure baloney: the bottom line is that all the major technology companies outside of China are American.
  • (4) Sometimes it occupies the high ground and sometimes it is camped so far down-market, amid celebrity trivia and Big Brother baloney, as to be almost out of sight.
  • (5) Farage describes the Hitler Youth song allegation as “baloney”.
  • (6) Farage said any suggestion of singing Hitler youth songs was "complete baloney", but admitted: "Of course I said some ridiculous things, not necessarily racist things."
  • (7) An interview with the author, Jessica Porter, ran in a British broadsheet on Monday and was as full of baloney as the diet itself is full of wholegrains, which, Porter claims Gillian McKeith-style, "literally have intelligence" – a claim that begs the snark, "Well, comparatively, perhaps."
  • (8) Hinting that he would like to take on the EFDD role, Nuttall said: “If the opportunity became available, of course, as leader of Ukip, I would like to do it, but it would only be done with agreement of Nigel.” Talk of a coup was “complete baloney”, he said.
  • (9) In the spin-room after the debate, Romney's spokesman Eric Ferhnstrom responded to the "pious baloney" line with a sly reference to the embarrassing disclosure last year that Gingrich has a $500,000 account with Tiffany's, presumably having lavished jewellery on his wife Callista.
  • (10) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich , out for revenge after being on the receiving end of a $4m (£2.6m) advertising battering from Romney in Iowa, did not hold back, accusing him of lying, being unelectable and, in a phrase likely to be remembered long after the campaign is over, of talking "pious baloney".
  • (11) You don’t want to be in that kind of situation, so you gotta be quiet about it, so you don’t go down that route.” While shackled and interrogated over the next three days, police fed Terry only twice, he said, with baloney sandwiches and juice.
  • (12) Baloney!” Cakmakci is the president of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 951 .
  • (13) Johnson, a leading Brexit advocate, told Sky News on Thursday that the EU’s position that there was an automatic trade-off between access to the single market and free movement was “complete baloney”.
  • (14) And George young has taken the bait: "Gary Naylor may be looking for a rise and I'm happy to give it to him - his comment about Ronaldo is utter baloney.
  • (15) John Cakmakci’s response to that argument is simple:“Baloney!
  • (16) Quell is a damaged second-world-war navy vet; groggy on paintstripper liquor, reeling from a broken heart, who falls under the spell of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the baloney-preaching leader of a Scientology-style cult.

Brawl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
  • (v. i.) To complain loudly; to scold.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
  • (n.) A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On 23 June, the Cleveland linebacker Ausar Walcott was charged with attempted murder following a brawl in a bar; three days later, the New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested on suspicion of shooting a man dead.
  • (2) Joyce was arrested in March after being allegedly involved in a brawl at a bar at the House of Commons, but prosecutors took no action against him.
  • (3) A randomised trial was conducted to assess the value of sending a mobile coronary care unit (MCCU) to all emergency calls other than those for children or for patients injured in road-traffic accidents or brawls.
  • (4) Uefa has charged both nations following the ensuing mass brawl but the controversy continued on Thursday.
  • (5) Not only is Corbyn not being granted a honeymoon, relatives are determined to have a brawl at the wedding.
  • (6) When these two men-children confronted one another with violent intent in a press conference at the Olympiahalle, less than an hour after Chisora's sanctioned brawl with Vitali Klitschko, they knew exactly what they were doing.
  • (7) (One witness to the encounter described the two leaders as like "lads looking for a brawl outside a pub on a Friday night").
  • (8) Cue mass brawl after the inevitable German penalty shoot-out victory.
  • (9) There have also been mass escapes, countless self-harm attempts and brawls leading to one guard being suspended, according to incident logs obtained under freedom of information laws.
  • (10) Rose, who sparked the first brawl after clashing with Willian and was booked, said he was sorry for how the game may have looked to young viewers.
  • (11) He said he believed a brawl was breaking out when “all of a sudden a guy comes up with a knife ... stabs me there [motioning to his neck] I push him off and blood is going everywhere”.
  • (12) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
  • (13) Cracks appear in cabinet as same-sex marriage splits Abbott's frontbench Read more The rolling brawl caps off a terrible week for the Abbott government, with the instability set to roll on into next week’s new parliamentary session.
  • (14) In 36% the situation was characterized by brawling or chasing.
  • (15) For a few minutes the brawling was as pronounced as at any England game in recent years and, though riot police arrived to divide the two sets of supporters, trouble flared again after Barkley’s deflected shot had given England the lead.
  • (16) A drunken brawl was in progress and as Cohn opened the cab door one of the guys reeled over the gutter and threw up over his trouser leg.
  • (17) During the ensuing brawl with the audience, eight people were injured.
  • (18) Law graduate 1954-55 Served in Indochina as paratroop lieutenant 1956 Youngest French MP (Poujadist movement), volunteer lieutenant in Algeria 1957 Implicated in French army torture during a three-month tour of duty in Algeria 1958 Loses right eye in electoral brawl, defeated in general elections 1972 Establishes the National Front party 1974 Polls 0.62% (190,000 votes) in presidential election 1976 Inherits fortune from NF supporter after court battle 1984 Becomes MEP 1986 MP (loses seat in 1988) 1987 Claims that Nazi concentration camps were 'a mere detail' of second world war 1990 Fined the equivalent of £160,000 for incitement to racial hatred 2000 Banned from holding political office for a year after attacking a woman Socialist candidate 2002 Polled 18%(5.5 million votes) in presidential election
  • (19) Uefa has charged the Serbian and Albanian Football Associations after the brawl involving players, supporters and stewards was sparked by a drone carrying the insignia of so-called “Greater Albania”, with the governing body expected to enforce heavy sanctions.
  • (20) As for the man in the middle of the brawl, he was among the few people remaining calm.