Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Solid and well-developed muscles, especially of the arms and legs.
- noun Muscular strength and power.
- noun Chiefly British The meat of a boar.
- noun Headcheese.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Boar's flesh; the flesh of the boar or of swine, collared so as to squeeze out much of the fat, boiled, and pickled.
- noun A boar.
- noun The flesh of a muscular part of the body: as, the brawn of the arm, thigh, etc.
- noun Well-developed muscles; muscular strength.
- noun Figuratively, the arm: from its muscles or strength.
- noun Head-cheese.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A muscle; flesh.
- noun Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
- noun The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.
- noun obsolete A boar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Strong
muscles orlean flesh , especially of the arm, leg or thumb. - noun Physical
strength ;muscularity . - noun chiefly UK
head cheese ; aterrine made from thehead of apig orcalf ; originallyboar 's meat. - verb transitive Make
fat , especially of aboar . - verb intransitive Become fat, especially of a boar.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun possessing muscular strength
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The major danger to a post-industrial society that depends more on brains than brawn is if it suddenly gets really stupid (that doesn't just apply to our financial woes).
Robert Teitelman: On the nostalgia for manufacturing Robert Teitelman 2010
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The major danger to a post-industrial society that depends more on brains than brawn is if it suddenly gets really stupid (that doesn't just apply to our financial woes).
Robert Teitelman: On the nostalgia for manufacturing Robert Teitelman 2010
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Upon the second period, that which I call the brawn in his life, these exercises will not permit me long to dwell.
Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist 1865
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People think in farming community you don't need a brain, only brawn, which is why Gandhi said you must marry intellect and labor.
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Thick-necked and moon-faced, he looked like an avuncular butcher, but behind the brawn was a scholar who spoke fluent French and German; he could talk knowledgeably of military history from the conquests of Alexander to the Arab campaigns documented in T.E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom."
A Mountain Of A Man 2008
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During the Middle Ages, wild boar—also known as brawn—crowned the Christmas feast.
Christmas Feast Joanna Waugh 2008
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During the Middle Ages, wild boar—also known as brawn—crowned the Christmas feast.
Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Waugh 2008
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Of our tame boars we make brawn, which is a kind of meat not usually known to strangers (as I take it), otherwise would not the swart
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Of our tame boars we make brawn, which is a kind of meat not usually known to strangers (as I take it), otherwise would not the swart Rutters and French cooks, at the loss of Calais (where they found great store of this provision almost in every house), have attempted with ridiculous success to roast, bake, broil, and fry the same for their masters, till they were better informed.
Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1 1909
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Abusers use their "brawn" to over power women and make themselves feeeeel high and mighty.
brtom commented on the word brawn
-- They buy one and fourpenceworth of brawn and four slices of panloaf at the north city dining rooms in Marlborough street from Miss Kate Collins, proprietress...
Joyce, Ulysses, 7
January 2, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word brawn
(n): Yorkshire dialect word for a molded, cold meat preparation made from a boiled pig’s head.
June 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word brawn
Head? Brain and brawn.
June 27, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word brawn
"The islanders would often ask me about the food where I came from, so once I used several cuttlefish mushrooms to fashion for them the fare on the table of a Czech pub, with plates of goulash and dumplings, a smaller plate with brawn, a basket of bread rolls, several half-litres of beer and glasses of rum, adding while I was at it, an open pack of cigarettes and an ashtray with cigarette ends in it."
- The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland, p 141 of the Dalkey Archive paperback
June 13, 2011