Brawler vs Crawler - What's the difference?
brawler | crawler |
One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.
* 1604 Shakespeare, Othello , .
* 1611
(Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
(UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk.
(sports) A crawl swimmer.
A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.
As nouns the difference between brawler and crawler
is that brawler is one who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights while crawler is a person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.brawler
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Noun
(en noun)- ''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.
- ''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.
Anagrams
*crawler
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Etymology 1
From . From the Australian convict period (1788-1850); a prisoner who was purposely and extensively abused by an overseer (also a convict) and thereby driven to escape but finding it impossible to survive in the Australian bush, surrender to this overseer who would then have his penal term reduced. The particular crawler was picked for his weak personality and might escape and return a number of times increasing his own penal term each time. According to James Tucker, some convict overseers had their sentences extensively reduced using this odious practice. Source-James Tucker's 1845 novelRalph Rashleigh.
