Row, not your boat.

Posted by ESC on June 15, 2004

In Reply to: Row, not your boat. posted by Bruce Kahl on June 15, 2004

: "Ratings row over Moore Iraq film"
: ---from the Drudge Report

: Anybody got the wholenine on how "row" got to mean "conflict"?

row -- a noisy commotion or disturbance. 1746, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to, or a shortened form of, "rouse" a carousal or bout of drinking , also spelled "rowse" , a shortened form of carouse... From The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1995).

• Row, not your boat. Bruce Kahl 15/June/04
  • Row. Smokey Stover 16/June/04