The adjective burly describes someone (usually male) who is muscular and beefy. Types of people that you might describe as burly? Football players, wrestlers, and bouncers at nightclubs.
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.
Adjective S.
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.
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.
a.
Coarse and rough; boisterous.
Burly
In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly.
Burly and big, and studious of his ease.2.
It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense.
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.
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