bruiser

The other is a Jersey bruiser, with a (much-discussed) physique reminiscent of Tony Soprano after a doughnut bender.

There is, to Obama, a milquetoastian core, one that needs perpetual strengthening by an inner-sanctum bruiser.

He is tough, a Scottish bruiser when it comes to a knuckle fight.

Oh, that half-jockey, half-bruiser countenance, I never forgot it!

Expert electrician, mechanic, sport spoiler and bruiser, eh?

When Young Davey came in I thought he'd have you out on the road for a certainty, and he's a pretty bruiser.

Frank appreciated the kindness of the big bruiser, whose admiration he had won by giving him a severe thrashing.

Then he stepped through the door carefully, to make sure that the big bruiser hadn't come back.