Websters 1828 Dictionary
Pugnacious PUGNA'CIOUS, a. [L. pugnax, from pugna, a fight; from pugnus, the fist. See Pugil.]
Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.
WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)
pugnacious adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: hard- bitten}, hard-boiled, pugnacious] 2: ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" [syn: pugnacious, rough]
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