Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bruiser"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bruiser \Bruis"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, bruises.
2. A boxer; a pugilist. --R. Browning.
Like a new bruiser on Broughtonic sand, Amid the
lists our hero takes his stand. --T. Warton.
3. A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of
telescopes. --Knight.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bruiser
n : a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a
man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as
he got" [syn: {bull}, {strapper}, {Samson}]
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