Pugilistic

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pu·gi·lism (py

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The skill, practice, and sport of fighting with the fists; boxing.

[From Latin pugil, pugilist; see peuk- in Indo-European roots.]

pugi·list n.

pugi·listic adj.

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Adj.

pugilistic - of or relating to pugilism or pugilists; "a pugilistic career"

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accomplishment boxing Effectiveness Glove fight pugilism vexation			In the very curious romance on the subject of his adventures in the Holy Land, and his return from thence, it is recorded how he exchanged a pugilistic favour of this nature, while a prisoner in Germany. Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context STRANGE CUSTOM OF THE ISLANDERS--THEIR CHANTING, AND THE PECULIARITY OF THEIR VOICE--RAPTURE OF THE KING AT FIRST HEARING A SONG--A NEW DIGNITY CONFERRED ON THE AUTHOR--MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE VALLEY--ADMIRATION OF THE SAVAGES AT BEHOLDING A PUGILISTIC PERFORMANCE--SWIMMING INFANT--BEAUTIFUL TRESSES OF THE GIRLS--OINTMENT FOR THE HAIR Typee by Melville, Herman View in context The gentleman and the prize-fighter put on the gloves, and faced each other in the classically correct posture of pugilistic defense. Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context			puffy pug Pug mill pug nose Pug piling pug-dog Pug-faced pug-nose Pug-nose eel pug-nosed Pugachov Puget Puget Sound Puggaree Pugger Puggered pugging puggree Puggry puggy Pugh Pugil pugil stick pugilism pugilist Pugilistic Pugin Puglia pugmark pugnacious pugnaciously pugnacity Pugwash conferences Puh puh-leeze puha Pui tosto puir puirtith puisne Puisny puissance puissant Puissantly Puissantness Puit puja Pujunan puka Puka Inti puke			Puggery pugging pugging pugging pugging boards puggish puggish puggish puggree Puggry Puggu Puggu Puggu puggy puggy puggy Pugh Pugh PUGH syndrome Pugil pugil stick pugilatio pugilism pugilism pugilism pugilism pugilist pugilist pugilist pugilist Pugilistic Pugilistic Attitude pugilistic stance pugilists pugilists Pugin Pugin Pugin, Augustus Charles Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore PUGKC Puglia Puglia Puglie Puglie Pugliese Public Relations PUGLUG PUGM PUGMA pugmark Pugmill Pugmill pugna pugnacious pugnacious pugnaciously pugnaciously pugnaciousness pugnaciousness pugnacity pugnacity

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