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[ adjective ] muscular and heavily built
Examples "a beefy wrestler" "had a tall burly frame" "clothing sizes for husky boys" "a strapping boy of eighteen" (`buirdly' is a Scottish term "a buirdly lad of twelve") Used in print (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Burly leathered men and wrinkled women in drab black rags carried_on in a primitive way , almost unchanged from feudal times . |
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