Brawn

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Solid and well-developed muscles, especially of the arms and legs.
  • n. Muscular strength and power.
  • n. Chiefly British The meat of a boar.
  • n. Headcheese.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
  • n. Physical strength; muscularity.
  • n. head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.
  • v. Make fat, especially of a boar.
  • v. Become fat, especially of a boar.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A muscle; flesh.
  • n. Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
  • n. The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.
  • n. A boar.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Boar's flesh; the flesh of the boar or of swine, collared so as to squeeze out much of the fat, boiled, and pickled.
  • n. A boar.
  • n. The flesh of a muscular part of the body: as, the brawn of the arm, thigh, etc.
  • n. Well-developed muscles; muscular strength.
  • n. Figuratively, the arm: from its muscles or strength.
  • n. Head-cheese.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. possessing muscular strength
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    strength   
    Cross Reference
    mock brawn   
    Form
    brawny    brawner   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    muscle    flesh    boar    strength   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Amon    Braun    Dawn    Mayon    Quinton    Sean    Shaun    Shawn    Swan    Vaughan   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sinew    venison    haunch