One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.
1604 Shakespeare, Othello, .''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.
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.
