Definition of "brawler"
brawler
noun
plural brawlers
One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.
Quotations
The world hath noted. And your name is greatIn mouthes of wiſeſt Cenſure. What's the matterThat you vnlace your reputation thus,And ſpend your rich opinion, for the nameOf a night-brawler? Giue me anſwer to it.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iii], page 320, column 2
A Biſhop then muſt be blameleſſe, the huſband of one wife, vigilant, ſober, of good behauiour, giuen to hoſpitalitie, apt to teach;Not giuen to wine, no ſtriker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous;One that ruleth well his owne houſe, hauing his children in ſubiection with all grauitie.(For if a man know not how to rule his owne houſe, how ſhall he take care of the Church of God?)
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Timothy 3:2–4, columns 1–2