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brawny

adj
/bɹɔːni/UK/bɹɔni/US/bɹɑni/

Etymology

From Middle English brawny; equivalent to brawn + -y.

  1. inherited from brawny

Definitions

  1. Characterized by brawn

    Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong.

    • Rattler was a big, brawny fellow, and he stepped up in front of me, rolling up his sleeves.
    • As he stood on one side, for a minute or so, unbuttoning his waist-coat and breeches, her fat, brawny thighs hung down
    • Once the pressure of the comparatively low-drivered J's was raised to 300 pounds, they ranked as the brawniest of 4-8-4's with a tractive force of 80,000 pounds.

  2. Calloused

    Calloused; hardened.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at brawny. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01brawny02brawn03meat04muscle05physique06muscular07thewy

A definitional loop anchored at brawny. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at brawny

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA