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What (who) is burly - definition
Burly
·adj Coarse and rough; boisterous.
II. Burly ·adj 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
(burlier, burliest)
A burly man has a broad body and strong muscles.
He was a big, burly man.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
burly
a.
1.
Stout, lusty, brawny, portly, bulky, strong, strapping, bouncing (colloq.).
2.
(Obsolescent.) Boisterous, noisy, blustering, swaggering, bullying, hectoring, coarse and rough.
Examples of use of burly
1. Such is the hurly–burly of Kenya‘s non–ideological politics.
2. But politics remained a fixation for the burly businessman.
3. A little less burly and tattooed than the archetype, perhaps.
4. Hussein Rahim, 38, a burly man with a thick mustache.
5. Reese Witherspoon, a diminutive 5ft 2in, is barely visible behind her burly security men.