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Boxer vs Brawler - What's the difference?

boxer | brawler |

As nouns the difference between boxer and brawler

is that boxer is boxer (a breed of dog) while brawler is one who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.

boxer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.
    • You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.''
  • A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
  • A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
  • The person running a game of two-up.
  • One who packs boxes.

    • Synonyms

    * (participant in a boxing match) pugilist * (type of engine) boxer engine

    Derived terms

    * boxer shorts, boxers * kick-boxer, kickboxer

    Related terms

    * box * boxing

    See also

    * wrestler * (Boxer) * ----

    brawler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.
  • * 1604 Shakespeare, Othello , .
    • ''The world hath noted, and your name is great
    ''In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,
    ''That you unlace your reputation thus
    ''And spend your rich opinion for the name
    ''Of a night-brawler ? give me answer to it.
  • * 1611
    • ''A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
    ''Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler , not covetous;
    ''One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
    (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) — 1 Timothy 3:2-5, KJV.

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