Brawn (noun)
br-aw-n
Physical strength in contrast to intelligence.
Meat from a pig’s or calf’s head that is cooked and pressed in a pot with jelly.
Middle English from Old French braon ‘fleshy part of the leg’, of Germanic origin; related to German Braten ‘roast meat’.
Example sentences
“But the job required brains and brawn.”
Ireful (adj) ayur-ful full of intense anger; wrathful. Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; ire, -ful (more…)
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
