mauley
British and Australian slang for a fist, used primarily in the context of fighting or physical confrontation.
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British and Australian slang for a fist, used primarily in the context of fighting or physical confrontation. The word has a rough, street-level register and often appears in descriptions of brawls, boxing, or working-class combat. It carries connotations of bluntness and physicality — your mauleys are your weapons in a fight. The term is found in boxing slang, Victorian street cant, and Australian rough-and-tumble vernacular, and may still be heard in older or regional British speech.
He raised his mauleys and dared any man in the pub to take a swing first.
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(AU, UK, slang) The fist.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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