Dictionary Entry
burly
burly is a 5-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.
- 2adjective
Coarse and rough; boisterous.
- 3adjective
muscular and heavily built
"a beefy wrestler"
"had a tall burly frame"
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