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Brawny definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRAWN'Y, a. Musculous; fleshy; bulky; having large, strong muscles; strong.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms" [syn: brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (brawnier; -est) Date: 1581 1. muscular; also strong, powerful 2. being swollen and hard <a brawny infected foot> • brawnily adverb • brawniness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (brawnier, brawniest) muscular, strong. Derivatives: brawniness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brawny Brawn"y, a. Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. ``Brawny limbs.'' --W. Irving. Syn: Muscular; fleshy; strong; bulky; sinewy; athletic; stalwart; powerful; robust.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is brawny is strong and has big muscles. ...a brawny young man. = strapping ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Muscular, sinewy, stalwart, sturdy, athletic, powerful, strong, vigorous, lusty, robust, strapping, Herculean, able-bodied.

Moby Thesaurus

able-bodied, adipose, athletic, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, broad-shouldered, bulky, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, husky, imposing, lusty, meaty, mighty, muscle-bound, muscular, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, powerful, pudgy, puffy, pursy, red-blooded, robust, roly-poly, rotund, sinewy, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, swollen, thewy, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tough, tubby, vigorous, vital, well-built, well-fed, well-knit, well-set, well-set-up, wiry