Fracas

Webster's Condensed Dictionary- A Condensed Dictionary of the English Language · 1909 · p. 236

fra'kas, n. An uproar noisy quarrel dis- turbance. [F.; fracas so, fr. fraca are, fr.fra, among, and ca are, to break, L. qua are, to shatter, fr. quatere, to shake. See Quash.]