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Burly

Burly Meaning & Definition
Burly Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Burly?

[adj] muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; (`buirdly' is a Scottish term; "a buirdly lad of twelve")

Synonyms | Synonyms for Burly: beefy | buirdly | husky | robust | strapping

Related Terms | Find terms related to Burly: able-bodied | adipose | athletic | beefy | big | big-bellied | bloated | blowzy | bosomy | brawny | broad-shouldered | buxom | chubby | chunky | corpulent | distended | dumpy | fat | fattish | fleshy | full | gross | heavy | heavyset | hefty | hippy | husky | imposing | large | lusty | meaty | muscle-bound | muscular | obese | overweight | paunchy | plump | podgy | portly | potbellied | pudgy | puffy | pursy | roly-poly | rotund | rugged | sinewy | square | squat | squatty | stalwart | stocky | stout | strapping | strong | sturdy | swollen | thewy | thick-bodied | thickset | top-heavy | tough | tubby | well-built | well-fed | well-knit | well-set | well-set-up | wiry

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Burly In Webster's Dictionary

\Bur"ly\ (b[^u]r"l[y^]), a. [OE. burlich strong, excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady's bower, hence handsome, manly, stout. Cf. {Bower}.] 1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. ``Burly sacks.'' --Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. --Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. --Cowper. 2. Coarse and rough; boisterous. It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. --Cowley.

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