Bruiser
['bruːzə]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, bruises.
(n.) A boxer; a pugilist.
(n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
Editor: Winthrop
Examples
- This was agreed to, and a celebrated bruiser was brought over from Newark. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The man declared that he was not a bruiser, and refused to stir. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At college he pulled stroke-oar in the Christchurch boat, and had thrashed all the best bruisers of the town. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Ellis