burly : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: burly	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Synonym(s): beefy, burly, husky, strapping, buirdly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Burly \Bur"ly\ (b[ucir]r"l[ycr]), 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. [bd]Burly sacks.[b8] --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.