Brawn Definition

brôn
noun
Strong, well-developed muscles.
Webster's New World
Muscular strength.
Webster's New World
Cooked boar's flesh.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
Headcheese.
American Heritage
verb

Make fat, especially of a boar.

Wiktionary
(intransitive) Become fat, especially of a boar.
Wiktionary

Origin of Brawn

  • Middle English brawne, from Old French braon (“slice of meat, fleshy part, buttock”), from Frankish *brādon, accusative form of *brādo (“roasted meat, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhre- (“to burn, heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bureue- (“to boil, bubble, burn”). Akin to Old High German brāto (“tender meat”) (German Braten (“roast”)), Old English brǣd (“flesh, meat”), Old Norse bráð (“raw meat”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English muscle from Old French braon meat of Germanic origin bhreu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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