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Webster 1913 Edition
Brawny
Brawn′y
,Adj.
Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.
“Brawny limbs.” W. Irving.
Syn. – Muscular; fleshy; strong; bulky; sinewy; athletic; stalwart; powerful; robust.
Webster 1828 Edition
Brawny
BRAWN'Y
,Adj.
Definition 2024
brawny
brawny
English
Adjective
brawny (comparative brawnier, superlative brawniest)
- Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong.
- Rattler was a big, brawny fellow, and he stepped up in front of me, rolling up his sleeves.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 2
- As he stood on one side, for a minute or so, unbuttoning his waist-coat and breeches, her fat, brawny thighs hung down
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 2
- Calloused; hardened.
Translations
characterized by brawn