pugnacious   (Sound)

The adj pugnacious has 2 senses

• hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious -- (tough and callous by virtue of experience)


• pugnacious, rough -- (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")