Brawler

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: brawl=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

Brawler, n. 

 One that brawls; wrangler.  [1913 Webster]

Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

THESAURUS

Brawler

agitator, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, bitter-ender, blade, bravo, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, duelist, enforcer, extremist, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, frondeur, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, intransigent, irreconcilable, jouster, knight, last-ditcher, litigant, malcontent, maverick, militant, mutineer, naysayer, negativist, nonconformist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, plaintiff, plug-ugly, protester, quarreler, rebel, resister, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, subversive, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, traitor, tussler, wrangler

ROGET THESAURUS

Brawler

Opponent

N opponent, antagonist, adversary, adverse party, opposition, enemy, the other side, assailant, oppositionist, obstructive, brawler, wrangler, brangler, disputant, filibuster, obstructionist, malcontent, Jacobin, Fenian, demagogue, reactionist, rival, competitor, bete noir.

Disobedience

N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.

Blusterer

N blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler, fanfaron, braggart, bully, terrorist, rough, bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer, Mohock, Mohawk, drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos, jingo, desperado, dare-devil, fire eater, fury, rowdy, slang-whanger, tough, puppy, prig, Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office, saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx, bantam-cock.