brawler n : a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls)

English

Noun

1. One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.

   1604 The world hath noted, and your name is great

   In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,

   That you unlace your reputation thus

   And spend your rich opinion for the name

   Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it.

   — Shakespeare, Othello, [[s:http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Othello%2C_The_Moor_of_Venice#ACT_2._SCENE_III.__A_hall_in_the_castle.|Act 2 Scene 3]].

   1611 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

   Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

   One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

   (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) — 1 Timothy 3:2-5, KJV.

Translations

agitator, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, bitter-ender, blade, bravo, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, duelist, enforcer, extremist, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, frondeur, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, intransigent, irreconcilable, jouster, knight, last-ditcher, litigant, malcontent, maverick, militant, mutineer, naysayer, negativist, nonconformist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, plaintiff, plug-ugly, protester, quarreler, rebel, resister, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, subversive, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, traitor, tussler, wrangler