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burly
(encz) | burly,hřmotný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
burly
(encz) | burly,statný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
burly
(encz) | burly,tělnatý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Burly
(gcide) | 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.
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In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was]
somewhat corpulent and burly. --Sir T. More.
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Burly and big, and studious of his ease. --Cowper.
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2. Coarse and rough; boisterous.
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It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense.
--Cowley.
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burly
(wn) | burly
adj 1: 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, burly, husky, strapping,
buirdly] |
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burly
(encz) | burly,hřmotný adj: Zdeněk Brožburly,statný adj: Zdeněk Brožburly,tělnatý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
hurly burly
(encz) | hurly burly,lomoz adv: Zdeněk Brož |
hurly-burly
(encz) | hurly-burly,lomoz adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Hurly-burly
(gcide) | Hurly-burly \Hur"ly-bur`ly\, n. [Reduplicated fr. OE. hurly
confusion: cf. F. hurler to howl, yell, L. ululare; or cf. E.
hurry.]
Tumult; bustle; confusion. --Shak.
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All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly.
--Knolles.
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burly
(wn) | burly
adj 1: 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, burly, husky, strapping,
buirdly] |
hurly burly
(wn) | hurly burly
n 1: a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the
furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disturbance,
disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, {to-
do}, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle] |
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