burly

Meaning of burly

adjective
  1. (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
    He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.
  2. (East End of London) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
    Kimi Räikkönen is a burly Formula 1 driver.
  3. (surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
    That wave was burly! (i.e. large, dangerous and difficult to ride)

adjective

Full of burls or knots; knotty.

Information about burly

  • It is an adjective.
  • The plural form of burly is: burlies.
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Hyphenation of burly

burly

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • burly is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

burly synonyms

Meaning beefy:

beefy, husky, strapping, buirdly

Words that rhyme with burly

Hardburly, unburly, curly, gurly, churly, hurly, murly, knurly, nurly, snurly, bihourly, dourly, halfhourly, hourly, notourly, oversourly, sourly, stourly, trihourly, unsourly, surly, unsurly, curliewurly, wurly

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