English Dictionary

brawn

IPA（発音記号）

/bɹɔːn/

名詞

不可算名詞 イギリス英語 イギリス英語 方言

Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb. / Physical strength; muscularity.

日本語の意味

強い筋肉や引き締まった肉体、特に腕、脚、親指などに見られる筋肉質な部分としての身体 / 体の力、筋力、肉体的な強靭さを指す意味

He relied on his brawn more than his brain to lift the heavy crate.

彼は重い木箱を持ち上げるために、頭よりも筋力に頼った。

意味（1）

Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.

意味（2）

Physical strength; muscularity.

The builders at the site had more brawn than brain.

意味（3）

(chiefly Britain) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.

Now if your Majesty would have our bristles To bind your mortar with, or fill our colons With rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles, In policy—ask else your royal Solons— You ought to give us hog-wash and clean straw, And sties well thatched; besides it is the law!

意味（4）

(UK, dialectal) A boar.

And loud as brawns wer [they] snoring,