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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Burly \Bur"ly\ (b[^u]r"l[y^]), a. [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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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; "a buirdly lad of twelve") [syn: {beefy}, {husky}, {strapping}, {buirdly}]
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