make-fray
nounEtymology From make + fray.
1
Obsolete Someone who instigates quarrels.
- If brabbling Make-fray, at each fair and size, / Picks quarrels for to show his valiantize,a. 1656, Joseph Hall, “Satire IV”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 5, published 1810, page 276:
- Synonyms
- breedbate, brewbate, makebate, make-debate