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单词 burly
释义

burly

See also: burley

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɜːli/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

  • bowerly (dialectal)

Adjective

burly (comparative burlier, superlative burliest)

  1. (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
    He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.
    • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, [], OCLC 633494058, chapter 12, page 301:
      With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
      She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
    • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 [], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, OCLC 1023879857, page 432:
      Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.
  2. (Britain, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
    That goal was burly.
    Kimi Räikkönen is a burly Formula 1 driver.
  3. (US, slang, 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)
    This hike is going to be burly, but worth it because there is good body surfing at that beach.
Translations

Etymology 2

burl + -y

Adjective

burly (comparative more burly, superlative most burly)

  1. Full of burls or knots; knotty.

See also

  • hurly-burly

Middle English

Adjective

burly

  1. Alternative form of burely
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