bur·ly /ˈbɝli/
(a.)結實的,粗壯的,率直的
Bur·ly a.
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.”
In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. --Sir T. More.
Burly and big, and studious of his ease. --Cowper.
2. Coarse and rough; boisterous.
It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. --Cowley.
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burly
adj : 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" [syn: beefy, husky, strapping, buirdly]
[also: burliest, burlier]