bruisern.

Brit.

/ˈbruːzə/, U.S.

/ˈbruzər/

Forms: see bruise v. and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bruise v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < bruise v. + -er suffix¹.

†1. A person who crushes something. Also with modifying word. Obsolete.Often with reference to Christ crushing the head of the serpent who tempted Eve. Cf. Genesis 3:15: ‘And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’ (King James Bible).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > bruise > person

bruiser1575

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who grinds or pulverizes

grinder1483

coffee grinder1711

bruiser1921

1575 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians sig. A.iii We againe will not cease to crush his heade, by the grace and help of Christ the principall bruser [L. Contritorem] therof, who is blessed for euer.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iii. xviii. 72 The Brooser of the Serpents head.

1662 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Apologie conc. Perfection 8 in tr. J. Böhme Remainder of Bks. The Crusher or bruiser of the Serpent.

1680 J. L. Christian Warfare 28 It is the School-master to Christ, and this Consumption the Bruiser of Worldly Wisdom, and introducer of Humility, Meekness and Emptiness.

1687 R. Wolley tr. N. Besongne Present State France (new ed.) ii. xli. 488 Ten Runners of Salt, ten Bruisers.

1744 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) i. 63 Serpent, see in us thy Bruiser, Feel his Power.

1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (iii. 20) 148 The bruiser of the serpent's head.

1882 J. Seiss Gospel in Stars 300 The triumphant royal Breaker and Bruiser of the powers of evil.

1897 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 535/2 The coffee-bruisers,..armed with heavy iron pestles, reduce the fragrant berry to a fine powder in large iron mortars.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §056 Sample bruiser; pulverises average sample of ore with flat-headed hammer, ready for sampler.

a. In the manufacture of lenses and specula: a concave implement of metal or glass used in shaping the grinding tools or in smoothing fine abrasives and polishes. Now rare.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > apparatus > [noun]

spectacle-case1597

steel glass1662

dark glasses1733

bruiser1738

hone pavement1738

Ramsden's ghost1807

sunshade1829

optical bank1874

phacometer1876

optical bench1880

flat1897

lens paper1925

light pipe1939

lens tissue1941

optical fibre1960

1738 R. Smith Compl. Syst. Opticks II. iii. i. 290 It is necessary to have lying by one an ordinary piece of course glass, ground in the same tool, called a bruiser.

?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 108 in School of Arts (ed. 2) All the emery strokes are ground off from the bruiser.

1828 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 5 45 This rough-grinder serves also for a polisher; this tool, with a bed of stones, or hones, are all that is necessary. A bruiser..is totally unnecessary.

1881 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 24 June 316/2 A ‘bruiser’, consisting of a piece of glass of the same curve as the tools, is used for perfectly working the emery over all portions of the tool.

1981 A. S. de Vany Master Optical Techniques iii. 47 The addition of fresh polishing compound should be broken down with a 3-in. glass bruiser.

b. Any machine, tool, or other implement used for bruising or crushing something, esp. a grain or fodder crop. Also with modifying word. Now chiefly historical.malt-bruiser, oat bruiser: see the first element. In quot. 1828 applied to a tooth; cf. grinder n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > crushing or grinding

mullet1398

mill1560

rammer1630

pulverizer1635

crackera1640

hand mill1656

grinder1688

mortar1733

pestle mill1773

pulverer1778

bruiser1809

smasher1822

muller1823

pug mill1824

crusher1825

pounding machine1839

pug1859

disintegrator1874

micronizer1934

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]

reeler1598

driver1659

rubber1747

heading machine1795

bruiser1809

finisher1835

stripper1835

physionotype1836

rotary1836

tetraspaston1842

netting-machine1846

speeder1847

dresser1855

spacer1857

starcher1862

bronzing liquid, machine1865

finishing machine1869

grader1869

brain machine1872

peanut roaster1872

bending machine1874

screw-machine1876

tire-upsetting-machine1877

buncher?1881

flax-breaker1889

oscillator1889

fluoroscope1893

fluorometer1897

mucker1916

spray dryer1921

paver1926

teabagger1940

burster1950

icemaker1953

laminator1958

slipform (concrete) paver1958

extruder1959

Zamboni1965

manipulator1968

wave machine1968

pipelayer1969

walking machine1971

1809 W. Pitt Gen. View Agric. Leics. v. 64 Of bruisers, different kinds have been constructed; one has been to pass the grain or pulse to be bruised between 2 stone rollers.

1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals 9 In the lower jaw [of the badger], the bruiser is small, the chewer large.

1869 Farmer's Mag. July 47/2 Breakers, and corn and pulse bruisers.

1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 27 Bruiser, a heavy mallet, beater, or rammer, useful for killing conger in the boat.

1962 E. S. Turner What Butler Saw x. 120 A really resourceful housekeeper would brew her own imitation wines, her equipment comprising vats, a vat-staff, fruit bruiser, strainer, [etc.].

2010 Victorian July 5/3 Chaff cutters, turnip slicers and grain bruisers which could all be belt-driven from an engine usually powered by steam became more usual.

a. A physically imposing person; a person inclined to violence or troublemaking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun] > strong person

hardyc1475

bruiser1742

ball of musclec1914

Tarzan1921

musclehead1923

heavy1962

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > person > strongly built

bruiser1742

heavy1936

1742 Country Jrnl. 1 May He behaved so well as a bruiser in the late Westminster Election.

1850 ‘N. Buntline’ G'hals of N.Y. viii. 65 The unlucky tars, half dead and stupefied with the poisoned liquor they had drank, as well as the punishment they had received at the hands of the bruisers.

1892 N.Y. Times 8 May 4/1 The conviction and punishment of a few members of the organized gangs of bruisers now serving as trainmen on the elevated railroads..would have a wholesome effect in restraining their murderous activities.

1907 Daily Chron. 11 Oct. 3/3 A ‘hero’ of a sufficiently ‘bruiser’ type to please the most athletic-minded youth.

1953 J. Phelan Underworld i. 21 A strong-arm chap is, roughly speaking, a bruiser, one who, for a pound or two, will punch some one on the nose, or start a fight in a pub, or even sometimes assault the police.

1996 M. Burgess Junk (1997) xi. 109 He had two teeth out in the front so he looked like a real bruiser, but he was very gentle and polite really.

2005 FHM Jan. 138/2 When word spread of rioting in Oldham, bruisers from across the country rolled up.

b. slang. A professional boxer; a prizefighter.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of

bruiser1744

ruffian1791

in-fighter1812

punisher1812

nobber1821

receiver general1821

slogger1829

slogster1881

ham1888

slaughterer1896

pushover1908

bum1917

mauler1920

palooka1920

round heel1926

set-up1926

powder puff1931

spoiler1948

kick-boxer1978

stiff1989

1744 H. Walpole Let. 26 Nov. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 7 He let into the pit great numbers of bear-garden bruisers, (that is the term,) to knock down everybody that hissed.

1796 J. Anstey Pleader's Guide ii. 82 A secret joy the Bruiser knows In giving and receiving blows.

1812 Ld. Byron Curse of Minerva 16 Be all the bruisers cull'd from all St. Giles,That art and nature may compare their styles; While brawny brutes in stupid wonder stare, And marvel at his Lordship's 'stone shop' there.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 330 Polydeuces was a notable bruiser.

1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. 144/1 The dim light would reveal his face, as drawn as a long-trained bruiser's.

1991 Jet 7 Jan. 50/1 Frazier..went to Jamaica to see his father defend his boxing title against a young bruiser by the name of George Foreman.

c. A person (esp. a politician) with an aggressive or formidable personality or attitude.

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1851 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 4/4 He is a political bruiser of the coarsest mould, delighting in the strife, and utterly devoid of that regard for fair-play which distinguishes an honourable opponent.

1929 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. (Book review section) 3/1 Commentators parted definitely from the conception of Hanna as the gladiatorial bruiser in politics to whom money and control of the government meant the same thing.

1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Sept. 45/3 The more uncertain Mr. Yeltsin's grip on events, the more he was hostage to the circle around him—which was dominated at this time by an unprepossessing clique of hawks and bruisers, led by Alexander Korzhakov, head of the presidential guard.

2014 MailOnline (Nexis) 16 Aug. A so-called no-nonsense bruiser who began his career as a print journalist in New Zealand in the 1970s, Mr Chisholm went on to be part of the original Sky News team when the channel launched in 1989.

d. An animal or thing remarkable for its size, power, ferocity, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > power > [noun] > that which is powerful

bruiser1868

kick-ass1977

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind

swinger1599

rapper1653

thumper1660

whisker1668

spanker1751

slapper1781

whopper1785

skelper1790

smasher1794

pelter1811

swapper1818

jumbo1823

sneezer1823

whacker1825

whanger1825

infant1832

bulger1835

three-decker1835

bouncer1842

snorter1859

whalera1860

plonker1862

bruiser1868

snapper1874

plumper1881

boomer1885

heavy1897

sollicker1898

sanakatowzer1903

Moby Dicka1974

stonker1987

1868 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 17 Apr. The owl was laid at their feet. It was an ‘old bruiser’, measuring over five feet from tip to tip of its wing.

1941 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 17 Dec. 9 (advt.) A Big Bruiser of a Coat!

1993 Toronto Life Sept. 78/3 For the exceptional sausage-lover..there's cotechino muset... This is a big bruiser: a continuous farmer's pork sausage, cut four slices to a plate.

2003 Smithsonian July 66/1 Somewhere in a rain forest in Panama, a big bruiser of a dung beetle with a formidable horn on his snout stands ready to defend his turf.

†4. Fox-hunting slang. A rider who rides hard, fast, and recklessly. Cf. bruise v. 5. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > hunter on horseback

workman1832

bruiser1833

roadster1858

craner1863

gap-hunter1872

thruster1886

funkstick1889

1833 Sporting Mag. Feb. 279/1 He has a very close seat, a good eye to country, and is altogether a bruiser.

1834 R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunting Songs 3 On a thorough bred there's a bruiser.

1879 H. B. Yerburgh Diary Nov. in Leaves from Hunting Diary in Essex (1900) I. i. 12 Mr. George Dawson, a well known bruiser with these hounds.

1908 Baily's Mag. Jan. 39/1 This is more in the style we like to think of the predecessors of the present day ‘bruisers’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	bruiser
释义	bruisern. Brit. /ˈbruːzə/, U.S. /ˈbruzər/ Forms: see bruise v. and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bruise v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < bruise v. + -er suffix¹. †1. A person who crushes something. Also with modifying word. Obsolete.Often with reference to Christ crushing the head of the serpent who tempted Eve. Cf. Genesis 3:15: ‘And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’ (King James Bible). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > bruise > person bruiser1575 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who grinds or pulverizes grinder1483 coffee grinder1711 bruiser1921 1575 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians sig. A.iii We againe will not cease to crush his heade, by the grace and help of Christ the principall bruser [L. Contritorem] therof, who is blessed for euer. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iii. xviii. 72 The Brooser of the Serpents head. 1662 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Apologie conc. Perfection 8 in tr. J. Böhme Remainder of Bks. The Crusher or bruiser of the Serpent. 1680 J. L. Christian Warfare 28 It is the School-master to Christ, and this Consumption the Bruiser of Worldly Wisdom, and introducer of Humility, Meekness and Emptiness. 1687 R. Wolley tr. N. Besongne Present State France (new ed.) ii. xli. 488 Ten Runners of Salt, ten Bruisers. 1744 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) i. 63 Serpent, see in us thy Bruiser, Feel his Power. 1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (iii. 20) 148 The bruiser of the serpent's head. 1882 J. Seiss Gospel in Stars 300 The triumphant royal Breaker and Bruiser of the powers of evil. 1897 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 535/2 The coffee-bruisers,..armed with heavy iron pestles, reduce the fragrant berry to a fine powder in large iron mortars. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §056 Sample bruiser; pulverises average sample of ore with flat-headed hammer, ready for sampler. 2. a. In the manufacture of lenses and specula: a concave implement of metal or glass used in shaping the grinding tools or in smoothing fine abrasives and polishes. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > apparatus > [noun] spectacle-case1597 steel glass1662 dark glasses1733 bruiser1738 hone pavement1738 Ramsden's ghost1807 sunshade1829 optical bank1874 phacometer1876 optical bench1880 flat1897 lens paper1925 light pipe1939 lens tissue1941 optical fibre1960 1738 R. Smith Compl. Syst. Opticks II. iii. i. 290 It is necessary to have lying by one an ordinary piece of course glass, ground in the same tool, called a bruiser. ?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 108 in School of Arts (ed. 2) All the emery strokes are ground off from the bruiser. 1828 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 5 45 This rough-grinder serves also for a polisher; this tool, with a bed of stones, or hones, are all that is necessary. A bruiser..is totally unnecessary. 1881 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 24 June 316/2 A ‘bruiser’, consisting of a piece of glass of the same curve as the tools, is used for perfectly working the emery over all portions of the tool. 1981 A. S. de Vany Master Optical Techniques iii. 47 The addition of fresh polishing compound should be broken down with a 3-in. glass bruiser. b. Any machine, tool, or other implement used for bruising or crushing something, esp. a grain or fodder crop. Also with modifying word. Now chiefly historical.malt-bruiser, oat bruiser: see the first element. In quot. 1828 applied to a tooth; cf. grinder n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > crushing or grinding mullet1398 mill1560 rammer1630 pulverizer1635 crackera1640 hand mill1656 grinder1688 mortar1733 pestle mill1773 pulverer1778 bruiser1809 smasher1822 muller1823 pug mill1824 crusher1825 pounding machine1839 pug1859 disintegrator1874 micronizer1934 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun] reeler1598 driver1659 rubber1747 heading machine1795 bruiser1809 finisher1835 stripper1835 physionotype1836 rotary1836 tetraspaston1842 netting-machine1846 speeder1847 dresser1855 spacer1857 starcher1862 bronzing liquid, machine1865 finishing machine1869 grader1869 brain machine1872 peanut roaster1872 bending machine1874 screw-machine1876 tire-upsetting-machine1877 buncher?1881 flax-breaker1889 oscillator1889 fluoroscope1893 fluorometer1897 mucker1916 spray dryer1921 paver1926 teabagger1940 burster1950 icemaker1953 laminator1958 slipform (concrete) paver1958 extruder1959 Zamboni1965 manipulator1968 wave machine1968 pipelayer1969 walking machine1971 1809 W. Pitt Gen. View Agric. Leics. v. 64 Of bruisers, different kinds have been constructed; one has been to pass the grain or pulse to be bruised between 2 stone rollers. 1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals 9 In the lower jaw [of the badger], the bruiser is small, the chewer large. 1869 Farmer's Mag. July 47/2 Breakers, and corn and pulse bruisers. 1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 27 Bruiser, a heavy mallet, beater, or rammer, useful for killing conger in the boat. 1962 E. S. Turner What Butler Saw x. 120 A really resourceful housekeeper would brew her own imitation wines, her equipment comprising vats, a vat-staff, fruit bruiser, strainer, [etc.]. 2010 Victorian July 5/3 Chaff cutters, turnip slicers and grain bruisers which could all be belt-driven from an engine usually powered by steam became more usual. 3. a. A physically imposing person; a person inclined to violence or troublemaking. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun] > strong person hardyc1475 bruiser1742 ball of musclec1914 Tarzan1921 musclehead1923 heavy1962 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > person > strongly built bruiser1742 heavy1936 1742 Country Jrnl. 1 May He behaved so well as a bruiser in the late Westminster Election. 1850 ‘N. Buntline’ G'hals of N.Y. viii. 65 The unlucky tars, half dead and stupefied with the poisoned liquor they had drank, as well as the punishment they had received at the hands of the bruisers. 1892 N.Y. Times 8 May 4/1 The conviction and punishment of a few members of the organized gangs of bruisers now serving as trainmen on the elevated railroads..would have a wholesome effect in restraining their murderous activities. 1907 Daily Chron. 11 Oct. 3/3 A ‘hero’ of a sufficiently ‘bruiser’ type to please the most athletic-minded youth. 1953 J. Phelan Underworld i. 21 A strong-arm chap is, roughly speaking, a bruiser, one who, for a pound or two, will punch some one on the nose, or start a fight in a pub, or even sometimes assault the police. 1996 M. Burgess Junk (1997) xi. 109 He had two teeth out in the front so he looked like a real bruiser, but he was very gentle and polite really. 2005 FHM Jan. 138/2 When word spread of rioting in Oldham, bruisers from across the country rolled up. b. slang. A professional boxer; a prizefighter. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of bruiser1744 ruffian1791 in-fighter1812 punisher1812 nobber1821 receiver general1821 slogger1829 slogster1881 ham1888 slaughterer1896 pushover1908 bum1917 mauler1920 palooka1920 round heel1926 set-up1926 powder puff1931 spoiler1948 kick-boxer1978 stiff1989 1744 H. Walpole Let. 26 Nov. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 7 He let into the pit great numbers of bear-garden bruisers, (that is the term,) to knock down everybody that hissed. 1796 J. Anstey Pleader's Guide ii. 82 A secret joy the Bruiser knows In giving and receiving blows. 1812 Ld. Byron Curse of Minerva 16 Be all the bruisers cull'd from all St. Giles,That art and nature may compare their styles; While brawny brutes in stupid wonder stare, And marvel at his Lordship's 'stone shop' there. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 330 Polydeuces was a notable bruiser. 1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. 144/1 The dim light would reveal his face, as drawn as a long-trained bruiser's. 1991 Jet 7 Jan. 50/1 Frazier..went to Jamaica to see his father defend his boxing title against a young bruiser by the name of George Foreman. c. A person (esp. a politician) with an aggressive or formidable personality or attitude. ΚΠ 1851 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 4/4 He is a political bruiser of the coarsest mould, delighting in the strife, and utterly devoid of that regard for fair-play which distinguishes an honourable opponent. 1929 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. (Book review section) 3/1 Commentators parted definitely from the conception of Hanna as the gladiatorial bruiser in politics to whom money and control of the government meant the same thing. 1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Sept. 45/3 The more uncertain Mr. Yeltsin's grip on events, the more he was hostage to the circle around him—which was dominated at this time by an unprepossessing clique of hawks and bruisers, led by Alexander Korzhakov, head of the presidential guard. 2014 MailOnline (Nexis) 16 Aug. A so-called no-nonsense bruiser who began his career as a print journalist in New Zealand in the 1970s, Mr Chisholm went on to be part of the original Sky News team when the channel launched in 1989. d. An animal or thing remarkable for its size, power, ferocity, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > [noun] > that which is powerful bruiser1868 kick-ass1977 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind swinger1599 rapper1653 thumper1660 whisker1668 spanker1751 slapper1781 whopper1785 skelper1790 smasher1794 pelter1811 swapper1818 jumbo1823 sneezer1823 whacker1825 whanger1825 infant1832 bulger1835 three-decker1835 bouncer1842 snorter1859 whalera1860 plonker1862 bruiser1868 snapper1874 plumper1881 boomer1885 heavy1897 sollicker1898 sanakatowzer1903 Moby Dicka1974 stonker1987 1868 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 17 Apr. The owl was laid at their feet. It was an ‘old bruiser’, measuring over five feet from tip to tip of its wing. 1941 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 17 Dec. 9 (advt.) A Big Bruiser of a Coat! 1993 Toronto Life Sept. 78/3 For the exceptional sausage-lover..there's cotechino muset... This is a big bruiser: a continuous farmer's pork sausage, cut four slices to a plate. 2003 Smithsonian July 66/1 Somewhere in a rain forest in Panama, a big bruiser of a dung beetle with a formidable horn on his snout stands ready to defend his turf. †4. Fox-hunting slang. A rider who rides hard, fast, and recklessly. Cf. bruise v. 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > hunter on horseback workman1832 bruiser1833 roadster1858 craner1863 gap-hunter1872 thruster1886 funkstick1889 1833 Sporting Mag. Feb. 279/1 He has a very close seat, a good eye to country, and is altogether a bruiser. 1834 R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunting Songs 3 On a thorough bred there's a bruiser. 1879 H. B. Yerburgh Diary Nov. in Leaves from Hunting Diary in Essex (1900) I. i. 12 Mr. George Dawson, a well known bruiser with these hounds. 1908 Baily's Mag. Jan. 39/1 This is more in the style we like to think of the predecessors of the present day ‘bruisers’. 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