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Meanings of buirdly in English

Muscular and heavily built.

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Examples for "husky"
1
Yet even taking that into account, her voice today sounds pretty husky.
The Irish Times
2
I'm sure they'd be glad to have you, the husky voice said.
Moonfall
3
The lambs said most; and the sheep agreed with a husky croak.
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
4
Señora Barenna was chattering in her deep husky tones immediately behind them.
In Kedar's Tents
5
His voice is husky and hoarse, almost impossible for them to understand.
Black house
1
The two burly soldiers looked familiar yet he couldn't quite place them.
Return of the Crimson Guard
2
I knew the burly man; he was the local smith, the blacksmith.
Pan
3
He's burly and he's hulking; he comes right up to your shins.
The Guardian
4
Sweaty burly men in photographers' vests that haven't been washed for days.
Reuters
5
For one thing, political autobiographies should be written when the hurly-burly's done.
The Irish Times
1
They were strapping teenagers who had learned to notice, and fear, difference.
Ebony
2
The forest we walked through now was really just a strapping adolescent.
A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
3
We're strapping ourselves in when word comes across the radio from Marika.
Full Circle
4
He was tall and strapping, a seven-year veteran of the Special Forces.
Climbing Magazine
5
He gave me a good strapping, and I went home in rebellion.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
1
Colonel Johnson returned, and in his beefy fists were three thick files.
The President's Assassin
2
The villein did too, his beefy hands frozen on the wooden handles.
The irish warrior
3
The man was about his own height though older and rather beefy.
Dayworld Breakup
4
Emily pulled at her skirt-herlegs were looking beefy from swimming-andpaused.
Flawless
5
A big-boned man, he had probably been beefy much of his life.
My Name is Legion
Usage of buirdly in English
1
But happen he may pull through, and he's a fine-made, buirdly young chap, so if you mean to back him, Mr. Wilson-
The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport
Frequent collocations
Buirdly through the time