Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool
that brawleth openly with his wife. --Golden Boke.
2. To complain loudly; to scold.
3. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid
stream running over stones.
Where the brook brawls along the painful road.
--Wordsworth.
Syn: To wrangle; squabble; contend.
She is an irksome brawling scold. --Shak.
2. Making a loud confused noise. See {Brawl}, v. i., 3.
A brawling stream. --J. S.
Shairp.