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brawler|ˈbrɔːlə(r)|
Also 6 braller, brauler, Sc. brallar.
[f. brawl v.1 + -er1.]
1. One engaged in or given to brawls; a quarrelsome, wrangling fellow; a breaker of the peace.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 43 Bakbiteres breke-cheste brawleres and chideres. 1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. IV. 209, I-slawe with swerdes of comoun contakkours [or brawlers, gladiatorum]. c1440Promp. Parv. 48 Brawlere, litigator. a1593H. Smith Wks. II. (1867) 253 If they be dicers, swearers, drunkards, brawlers. 1735Oldys Raleigh Wks. 1829 I, Thou shalt be in as much danger in contending with a brawler in a private quarrel as in a battle. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 654 A tavern brawler..swaggering drunk about the streets.
2. A noisy contentious talker.
c1510J. Inglis Gen. Satyre ix, Sic brallaris and bosteris, degenerait fra their natures. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 2 This prattling brawler hath framed a long discourse. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. xii. (1851) 246 That Clause in the Coronation Oath, which such a brazen-fac'd Brawler as you call fictitious. 1713Bp. Gibson Art. Visitation in Toulm. Smith Parish (1857) 94 Is he a brabler, brauler, contentious, seditious party? 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. ii. v. v. 65 A blustering Effervescence, of brawlers and spouters. |