BRUISER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bruiser mean? 

• BRUISER (noun)
  The noun BRUISER has 1 sense:

1. a large and strong and heavyset man

  Familiarity information: BRUISER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUISER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large and strong and heavyset man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bruiser; bull; Samson; strapper

Context example:

a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got

Hypernyms ("bruiser" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Derivation:

bruise (injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of)

 Context examples 

“You know Berks, the bruiser?” asked my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It’s Jack Harrison the bruiser! Lord Frederick was going to take on the ex-champion. Give him one on the apron, Fred, and see what happens.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have become a bruiser and your uncle’s paid man, whilst you are a Corinthian upon town.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Put the men in training, and it’s a horse to a hen on the bruiser.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Are you Tom Owen the bruiser?’ says one o’ them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bruiser very calmly seated himself astride of a chair with his arms resting upon the back of it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It so chanced that, as the battle went against his man, my eyes stole round very often to note the expression upon Sir Lothian Hume’s face, for I knew how fearlessly he had laid the odds, and I understood that his fortunes as well as his champion were going down before the smashing blows of the old bruiser.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)