In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
beefy, burly, husky, strapping, buirdly
(adjective) muscular and heavily built; âa beefy wrestlerâ; âhad a tall burly frameâ; âclothing sizes for husky boysâ; âa strapping boy of eighteenâ; ââbuirdlyâ is a Scottish termâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
burlier
comparative form of burly
Source: Wiktionary
Bur"ly, a. Etym: [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. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; âhow big is that part compared to the whole?â; âthe team is a unitâ
In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.