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brawn.

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

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɹɔːn/Received-Pronunciation/bɹɔn/General-American/bɹɑn/cot-caught-merger

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

    countable · uncountable

  2. Physical strength; muscularity.

    countable · uncountable
    The builders at the site had more brawn than brain.

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

    UK · countable · uncountable

  4. A boar.

    UK · countable · dialectal · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English brawne, from Old French braon (“slice of meat, fleshy part, buttock”), from Frankish *brādon, *brādan, oblique forms 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”).

verb/bɹɔːn/Received-Pronunciation/bɹɔn/General-American/bɹɑn/cot-caught-merger

  1. Make fat, especially of a boar.

    transitive

  2. Become fat, especially of a boar.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English brawne, from Old French braon (“slice of meat, fleshy part, buttock”), from Frankish *brādon, *brādan, oblique forms 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”).

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