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)
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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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