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BURLIEST
BURLY
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
Adjective
burliest
superlative form of burly: most burly
Anagrams
• bluiters, subtiler
Source: Wiktionary
BURLY
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
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INTUITIVELY
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