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Meaning of 'burly' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Burly [ a.]
- 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.
- Coarse and rough; boisterous.

Meaning of 'burly' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . burly [ s]
Meaning (1):
- muscular and heavily built
Example in sentence:
  • a beefy wrestler;
  • a strapping boy of eighteen;
  • clothing sizes for husky boys;
  • had a tall burly frame;
  • `buirdly' is a Scottish term

Nearby Words:

bur bur fish bur marigold burbolt burbot burdelais burden burdened burdener burdening

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