Usually means: Stronger, more robust and muscular.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. burlier: Merriam-Webster
  2. burlier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burlier: Collins English Dictionary
  4. burlier: Vocabulary.com
  5. burlier: Wordnik
  6. burlier: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. burlier: Wiktionary
  8. burlier: Dictionary.com
  9. burlier: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. burlier: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. burlier: Legal dictionary

(Note: See burly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (burly)

adjective:  (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
adjective:  (British, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
adjective:  (US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
adjective:  Full of burls or knots; knotty.
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