What's the difference between brawler and nicker?

Brawler


Definition:

  • (n.) One that brawls; wrangler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
  • (2) So it's therefore doubly fascinating to see that the artist whom Francis holds in highest esteem is Caravaggio, the Baroque gay icon and street brawler who used prostitutes and rent boys as models for his work.
  • (3) A year ago I was crying out for Cook to step down for the benefit of his batting - albeit advocating Broad the Brawler to take over his position (I liked the way he got under the opposition's skin).
  • (4) He has to firmly rebut and dissect Romney's arguments, but without coming across as a brawler.
  • (5) However, Ram was a drinker and a brawler whom other men in the colony frequently had to keep in line.
  • (6) Justin Trudeau was a popular but untested politician when he stepped into the ring to meet a tough-looking brawler from the Conservative party of Canada .
  • (7) He had not been the best student – “a bit of a brawler, easily led, but popular”, according to his mother – but had decent basic qualifications and was a keen sportsman.
  • (8) At first, the skin's waxy softness, the three-days' growth, the brawler's nose, is all you notice.
  • (9) The over-aggressive brawler – recently appointed Conservative senator Patrick Brazeau – quickly wore himself out, allowing the slender Trudeau to move in and pick him apart with impressive finesse.
  • (10) With cauliflower ears and a scarred shaven head, Bisping certainly has the look of a brawler.
  • (11) While Algieri had won a world title at 140lbs with last year’s upset of crude brawler Ruslan Provodnikov, few expected the Long Island native to pose much of a threat against the faster, more polished Khan, a two-time champion at junior welterweight.
  • (12) At first, people think: ‘Gosh, these guys are just a bunch of bar room brawlers,’” Fertitta says.
  • (13) I guess this isn’t much of a secret, but I love roller derby – my local team are the Tiger Bay Brawlers, who are one of the best teams in the UK.
  • (14) Can Corbyn from opposition really turn Britain from Europe’s bellicose pub brawler, eager to join any fight, into an unarmed pacifist country, with no more than peacekeeping forces?

Nicker


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
  • (v. t.) The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.

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