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burly 音標拼音: [b'ɚli] a. 結實的,粗壯的,率直的 結實的,粗壯的,率直的 burly adj 1: 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: { beefy}, { burly}, { husky}, { strapping}, { buirdly}] Burly \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [ he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. -- Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster] Burly and big, and studious of his ease. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Coarse and rough; boisterous. [ 1913 Webster] It was the orator' s own burly way of nonsense. -- Cowley. [ 1913 Webster] 69 Moby Thesaurus words for " 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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