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brawn

noun
/bɹɔːn/UK/bɹɔn/US/bɹɑn/

Etymology

From Middle English brawne, from Old French braon (“slice of meat, fleshy part, buttock”), from Frankish *brādon, *brādan, accusative form of *brādō (“roasted meat, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”), of uncertain further origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“to burn, heat”). Akin to Old High German brāto (“tender meat”) (German Braten (“roast”)), Old English brǣde, brǣd (“flesh, meat”), Old Norse bráð (“raw meat”).

  1. derived from *bʰreh₁-✻
  2. derived from *brēdô✻
  3. derived from *brādon✻
  4. derived from braon
  5. inherited from brawne

Definitions

  1. Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.

  2. Physical strength

    Physical strength; muscularity.

    • The builders at the site had more brawn than brain.
    • The man was a bruiser, the sort who'd learned his science in tavern brawls. Given his size and lack of agility, he relied on his brawn to win. In any wrestling match, Crowley would triumph easily.
    • The two men were husky, picked for their brawn by the little man who sauntered into the room.

  3. Head cheese

    Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.

    • It was brawn and shape for high tea.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A boar.

      • And loud as brawns wer [they] snoring,
      • THE village of Brancepath, pleasantly situated at the distance of four miles and three- quarters south-west by west of Durham, is said to have derived its name (a corruption of Brawn's-path) from a brawn of vast size, [...]

    2. Make fat, especially of a boar.

    3. Become fat, especially of a boar.

    4. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

brawny, brawner

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at brawn. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01brawn02meat03muscle04physique05muscular06thewy07brawny

A definitional loop anchored at brawn. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at brawn

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA