Usually means: Strong, heavily built; stout, robust.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. burly: Merriam-Webster
  2. burly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. burly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. burly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Burly, burly: Wordnik
  7. burly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. burly: Wiktionary
  9. burly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. burly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. burly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Burly, burly: Dictionary.com
  13. burly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. burly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Burly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. burly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. burly: Rhymezone
  18. Burly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. burly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. burly: FreeDictionary.org
  21. burly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. burly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. burly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burly: Legal dictionary

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  1. burly: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. burly, burly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. burly: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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.

Similar:
strapping, robust, buirdly, husky, beefy, boofy, butch, shovel-handed, jacked, hard, more...

Opposite:
slender, skinny, lean, slight, thin

Types:
beefy, husky, stocky, chunky, robust, thickset, solid, sturdy, more...

Phrases:
hurly burly, burly antecedent, a very huge burly brute, more...

Colors:
    rust,     mahogany,     chestnut,     maroon,     sienna, more...


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Similar:
strapping, robust, buirdly, husky, beefy, boofy, butch, shovel-handed, jacked, hard, more...

Opposite:
slender, skinny, lean, slight, thin

Types:
beefy, husky, stocky, chunky, robust, thickset, solid, sturdy, more...

Phrases:
hurly burly, burly antecedent, a very huge burly brute, more...

Colors:
    rust,     mahogany,     chestnut,     maroon,     sienna, more...



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