Burly
['bɜːlɪ] or ['bɝli]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Stout, lusty, brawny, portly, bulky, strong, STRAPPING, BOUNCING.[2]. Boisterous, noisy, blustering, swaggering, bullying, hectoring, coarse and rough.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BULKY]
Typist: Lucas
Definition
adj. bulky: boisterous bluff.—n. Bur′liness.
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Examples
- In fact, that is our family department, said Mr. Skimpole, in this hurly-burly of life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A burly Sussex policeman and I had found it no light job. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was dressed in a legal-looking suit of black, and loomed, burly and large, in that small office. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On they came, and in a moment the burly form of Tom appeared in sight, almost at the verge of the chasm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- George looked over the rocks, and saw them trying to lift the burly form of Tom into the saddle. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy stick in his hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- So spoke the burly Priest, assuming, on his part, high defiance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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