pugnacious
— Adjective
– English
~ 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"
pugnacious
— Adjective
– English
~ tough and callous by virtue of experience
pugnaciously
— Adverb
– English
~ in a pugnacious manner
pugnacity
— Noun
– English
~ a natural disposition to be hostile
Philomachus pugnax
— Noun
– English
~ common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season