burly

Significado (Inglés)

1. Large, well-built, and muscular.
2. (slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
3. (slang) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.

Conceptos

corpulento

fornido

robusto

resistente

carnudo

membrudo

fornida

carnosa

carnuda

carnoso

cárnico

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fuerte

musculoso

Sinónimos

sturdy

strong

husky

portly

stout

robust

corpulent

brawny

stalwart

big

strapping

tough

beefy

stocky

solid

bulky

buirdly

huge

thick

firm

plump

pursy

resistant

rugged

stately

stubbed

tall

thickset

well-knit

well-set

herculean

square-built

heavy-bodied

lusty

blocky

bluff

bouncing

broad

buxom

clumpy

clumsy

coarse

crass

dignified

earthy

elephantine

gross

hefty

lubberly

lumpish

lumpy

able-bodied

noble

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈbɜːli/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: burly

Cognado con escocés: burely

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *būrlīċ

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *byrlīċ

Cognado con alto alemán antiguo: burlīh

Cognado con alto alemán antiguo: burjan

In summary

From Middle English burly, burely, borly, burlich, borlich, borlic (“tall, stately”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots burely, burly (“rough, stout, sturdy, strong”). Perhaps from Old English *būrlīċ (“noble, stately”, literally “bowerly”), equivalent to bower + -ly; or from Old English *byrlīċ (“high, raised”), from byre (“raised area, mound”), cognate with Old High German burlīh, purlīh (“lofty, elevated, high, exalted”), related to Old High German burjan (“to raise, lift, push up”). See burgeon.