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Meanings of pugilist in English

Portuguese
pugilista
Catalan
pugilista
Spanish
pugilista
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Someone who fights with his fists for sport.

        pugilista
        Spanish
        pugilato

        Profession.

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                pugilato
                Usage of pugilist in English
                1
                At the following Kingston Assizes the victorious pugilist was indicted for manslaughter.
                The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
                2
                He had stamped on him the defiance and resolution of a pugilist.
                Irish Wit and Humor / Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Lea...
                3
                The pugilist whose trainer he consented to become was sure to win.
                The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
                4
                I drove every yard of the way to the pugilist's very door.
                A Thief in the Night: A Book of Raffles' Adventures
                5
                Surely a pugilist like yourself is not afraid to cross Wild's path?
                A conspiracy of paper: a novel
                6
                Sure, the tacher ought to be something av a pugilist, Oi'm thinkin'.
                Judith of the Plains
                7
                He is the cleverest pugilist of his weight in the country.
                Moon-Face, and Other Stories
                8
                The pugilist had only the vaguest sense of what had happened.
                The Best British Short Stories of 1922
                9
                What was it about me that drew out the pugilist in people today?
                The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
                10
                Even now the pugilist found that he had no light task before him.
                The Last Galley; Impressions and Tales
                11
                No pugilist or fencing-master could have parried a blow more neatly.
                The Youth's Companion, Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13...
                12
                And he went off, sticking his head forward like a pugilist.
                The Old Wives' Tale
                13
                Because he plays a good game of pinochle-tokeep the pugilist's mind bright.
                The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
                14
                What the hell, that ain't no crime, not being a pugilist, is it?
                The Young Lions
                15
                Their pages reveal in turn the poet, the philosopher, the scholar, and the pugilist.
                The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 / A Magazin...
                16
                Each out-vied the other in admiration for the supreme pugilist.
                Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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