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8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun someone who fights with his fists for sport
originFrom Latin pugil (“boxer”) + -ist, related to pugnus (“fist”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”). Compare contemporary pugilism (“boxing”) (1791).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0