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Brawler

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brawl  (brôl)
n.
1. A noisy quarrel or fight.
2. A loud party.
3. A loud, roaring noise.
intr.v. brawled, brawl·ing, brawls
1. To quarrel or fight noisily.
2. To flow noisily, as water.
[Middle English braul, from braullen, to quarrel.]
brawler n.
brawling·ly adv.
Synonyms: brawl, broil2, donnybrook, fracas, fray1, free-for-all, melee, row3
These nouns denote a noisy, disorderly, and often violent quarrel or fight: a barroom brawl; a broil between the opposing teams; a vicious legal donnybrook; a fracas among prison inmates; eager for the fray; a free-for-all in the schoolyard; police plunging into the melee; an angry domestic row.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.brawler - a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls)
battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper - someone who fights (or is fighting)


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Rostov went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise learned that Dolokhov the brawler, Dolokhov the bully, lived in Moscow with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate of sons and brothers.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
She believed him to be heartless, selfish, and misguided, but she knew that he was not the loud, coarse, sensual, and ignorant brawler most of her mother's gossips supposed him to be.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
Any drunken brawler trying to make his way into the house, would have alarmed a quiet soul like her.
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