bear garden
noun
Roget 59:
disorder;
derangement
etc.
61;
irregularity;
anomaly
etc.
(unconformity)
83;
anarchy,
anarchism;
want of method;
untidiness
etc.
adj.;
disunion;
discord
etc.
24.
confusion;
confusedness
etc.
adj.;
mishmash,
mix;
disarray,
jumble,
huddle,
litter,
lumber;
cahotage†;
farrago;
mess,
mash,
muddle,
muss [U.S.],
hash,
hodgepodge;
hotch-potch†,
hotch-pot†;
imbroglio,
chaos,
omnium gatherum [Lat.],
medley;
mere mixture
etc.
41;
fortuitous concourse of atoms,
disjecta membra [Lat.],
rudis indigestaque moles [Lat.]
[Ovid].
complexity
etc.
59.1.
turmoil;
ferment
etc.
(agitation)
315;
to-do,
trouble,
pudder†,
pother,
row,
rumble,
disturbance,
hubbub,
convulsion,
tumult,
uproar,
revolution,
riot,
rumpus,
stour†,
scramble,
brawl,
fracas,
rhubarb,
fight,
free-for-all,
row,
ruction,
rumpus,
embroilment,
melee,
spill and pelt,
rough and tumble;
whirlwind
etc.
349;
bear garden,
Babel,
Saturnalia,
donnybrook,
Donnybrook Fair,
confusion worse confounded,
most admired disorder,
concordia discors [Lat.];
Bedlam,
all hell broke loose;
bull in a china shop;
all the fat in the fire,
diable a' quatre [Fr.],
Devil to pay;
pretty kettle of fish;
pretty piece of work [Fr.],
pretty piece of business [Fr.].
[legal terms]
disorderly person;
disorderly persons offence;
misdemeanor.
[moral disorder]
slattern,
slut
(libertine)
962.
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Roget 728:
arena,
field,
platform;
scene of action,
theater;
walk,
course;
hustings;
stare,
boards
etc.
(playhouse)
599;
amphitheater;
Coliseum,
Colosseum;
Flavian amphitheater,
hippodrome,
circus,
race course,
corso [Sp.],
turf,
cockpit,
bear garden,
playground,
gymnasium,
palestra,
ring,
lists;
tiltyard†,
tilting ground;
Campus Martins,
Champ de Allars†;
campus [U.S.].
boxing ring,
canvas.
theater of war,
seat of war;
battle-field,
battle-ground;
field of battle,
field of slaughter;
Aceldama†,
camp;
the enemy's camp;
trusting place
etc.
(place of meeting)
74.
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Roget 713:
disagreement
etc.
24;
discord,
disaccord†,
dissidence,
dissonance;
jar,
clash,
shock;
jarring,
jostling
etc.
v.;
screw loose.
variance,
difference,
dissension,
misunderstanding,
cross purposes,
odds,
brouillerie [Fr.];
division,
split,
rupture,
disruption,
division in the camp,
house divided against itself,
disunion,
breach;
schism
etc.
(dissent)
489;
feud,
faction.
quarrel,
dispute,
tiff,
tracasserie†,
squabble,
altercation,
barney [Slang],
demel_e,
snarl,
spat,
towrow†,
words,
high words;
wrangling
etc.
v.;
jangle,
brabble†,
cross questions and crooked answers,
snip-snap;
family jars.
polemics;
litigation;
strife
etc.
(contention)
720;
warfare
etc.
722;
outbreak,
open rupture,
declaration of war.
broil,
brawl,
row,
racket,
hubbub,
rixation†;
embroilment,
embranglement†,
imbroglio,
fracas,
breach of the peace,
piece of work [Fr.],
scrimmage,
rumpus;
breeze,
squall;
riot,
disturbance
etc.
(disorder)
59;
commotion
etc.
(agitation)
315;
bear garden,
Donnybrook,
Donnybrook Fair.
subject of dispute,
ground of quarrel,
battle ground,
disputed point;
bone of contention,
bone to pick;
apple of discord,
casus belli [Lat.];
question at issue
etc.
(subject of inquiry)
461;
vexed question,
vexata quaestio [Lat.],
brand of discord.
troublous times†;
cat-and-dog life;
contentiousness
etc.
adj.;
enmity
etc.
889;
hate
etc.
898;
Kilkenny cats;
disputant
etc.
710;
strange bedfellows.
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