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Bruiser

noun
1.
A large and strong and heavyset man.  Synonyms: bull, Samson, strapper.  "A thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"



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"Bruiser" Quotes from Famous Books



... that is, to bring Christ down from above?' or, 'Who shall descend into the deep, to bring up Christ from the dead?' For, behold, the Word, which is the Wisdom of God, is in thy heart. It is there as a bruiser of Thy serpent, as a Light unto thy feet and Lanthorn unto thy paths; it is there as an Holy Oil, to soften and overcome the wrathful fiery properties of thy nature, and change them into the humble meekness of Light and Love; it is there as a speaking ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

... a bruiser and you're getting knocked about — Grin. If you're feeling pretty groggy, and you're licked beyond a doubt — Grin. Don't let him see you're funking, let him know with every clout, Though your face is battered to a pulp, your blooming heart is stout; Just stand upon your pins until ...
— The Spell of the Yukon • Robert Service

... the North Briton. Hogarth's reply was a caricature of the popular leader; who then engaged one of his supporters, named Churchill, to retaliate in an angry epistle to the artist. Hogarth again replies with the graver—that terrible weapon in his practised hands—and draws a portrait of "The Bruiser, once the Reverend Churchill," shown in the form of a dancing bear, with club plastered with lies, and a tankard of porter at ...
— The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature • Selwyn Brinton



Words linked to "Bruiser" :   adult male, Louis the Bruiser, Samson, bruise, man, bull, strapper



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