burly

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɜːli/    美 /ˈbɜːli/|/bɝli/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Large, well-built, and muscular. usually
    — He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.
  2. Full of burls or knots; knotty.
  3. Great, amazing, unbelievable. UK,slang
    — That goal was burly.
  4. Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both. US,slang
    — That wave was burly! (i.e. large, dangerous and difficult to ride)

词形变化

burlier comparative burliest superlative bowerly alternative more burly comparative most burly superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
burlily burliness unburly

词源

词源 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”), English burgeon. However, Irish burla (“bundle, pack; burly person”) points to a different origin.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English burl
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English burly
From burl + -y.
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