Ruffian vs Brawler - What's the difference?
ruffian | brawler |
A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A pimp; a pander.
(obsolete) A lover; a paramour.
* Bishop Reynolds
One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.
* 1604 Shakespeare, Othello , .
* 1611
As nouns the difference between ruffian and brawler
is that ruffian is a scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person while brawler is one who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.As a verb ruffian
is to play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.As an adjective ruffian
is brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous.ruffian
English
Noun
(en noun)- Wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian ?
- He [her husband] is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, revelling with her ruffians .
Synonyms
* rogue * scampAnagrams
* ----brawler
English
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.