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In some senses, burly is marked as slang, British, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
big
VERB + BURLY
prefers
BURLY + NOUN
man, men, player, rugby
PREP.
with
ADV.
really
adj
Large, well-built, and muscular.
He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.
With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.
Great, amazing, unbelievable.
That goal was burly.
Kimi Räikkönen is a burly Formula 1 driver.
Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
That wave was burly! (i.e. large, dangerous and difficult to ride)
This hike is going to be burly, but worth it because there is good body surfing at that beach.
adj
Full of burls or knots; knotty.
He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.
WiktionaryWith no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made,
WiktionaryShe was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish
WiktionaryThose burly books were really expensive.
Tatoeba · #4995879He was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown, weather-beaten face, and blue eyes which were keen to the verge of fierceness.
Tatoeba · #6981682She prefers big, burly men.
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In some senses, burly is marked as slang, British, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.