Definitions for pugilist

pugilist pu·gi·list

Spelling: [pyoo-juh-list]
IPA: /ˈpyu dʒə lɪst/

Pugilist is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in pugilist (giilpstu).

Definitions for pugilist

noun

  1. a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.

Origin of pugilist

1780-90; Latin pugil (see pugilism) + -ist

Examples for pugilist

These are brave words and, as we should expect from so alert a pugilist, straight from the shoulder.

A pugilist's manager would be of more use to him than a publisher now.

Toppy shook his head, like a pugilist clearing his wits after a knockdown.

"I'm all ready," said Richard, throwing himself into the attitude of the pugilist.

He set himself square like a pugilist, which was his notion of resistance.

She had put on a blue bath-robe, and looked like a pugilist about to enter the ring.

Perhaps a pugilist would have said that the younger "heeled" the other.

They had rendered the pugilist helpless while they were robbing him.

The muscularity, purchased by excessive nutriment, of the Bœotian pugilist.

He meant to ascertain what the relations were between the pugilist and the girl.

Word Value for pugilist
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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