brawns

Meaty arm power

Brawns is the plural of brawn, which has two main meanings.

Physical brawn refers to muscular strength and power, often contrasted with brains: The job requires more brawns than brains.

In British culinary usage, brawn is a cold cut made from meat from a pig's head set in gelatin, similar to head cheese.

Multiple varieties or servings of this dish would be brawns.

strength

muscle

Contractile body tissue

  • powerEnergy transfer rate
  • mightGreat physical strength
  • vigorActive physical strength

force · brute strength · heft · burliness · beefiness · muscularity · sinew · bulk · physique · sturdiness

meatdish

headcheese

Jellied meat from skull

pâté · charcuterie · cold cuts · gelatin · pork · offal · trotter · snout · jellied · delicacy

Opposites
physical vs. intellectual strength

brawnsbrains

Mental capacity, informally

intellect · intelligence · mind · wit · cunning

physical robustness

brawnsweakness

Deficiency in force

frailty · feebleness · delicacy · fragility · puniness

Family

brawn, brawny, brawniness, brawnier, brawniest

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