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BURLILY
Etymology
Adverb
burlily (comparative more burlily, superlative most burlily)
In a burly manner.
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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