单词	brawny
释义	brawnybrawn‧y /ˈbrɔːni $ ˈbrɒː-/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES big brawny arms He had a football player's physique: big head, thick neck, brawny shoulders, and heavy legs. The gardener's assistant arrived -- a brawny youth who never said a word. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All night he parades up and down the bar like a brawny old cockerel. She had a husband, a great brawny brute of an ex R.A.F. pilot who knocked her about. The sun was pouring into the courtyard and his brawny arms glistened with sweat. They pictured Soviet women as hammer-throwers, brawny six-footers who work in brick factories. Topaz had pictured her as tall and brawny as befitted a martinet. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorhaving a strong body► strong someone who is strong has big muscles and can lift heavy things, do a lot of physical work etc: · It took four strong men to lift the piano.· Unless you have very strong arms, get a workman to do the drilling for you.big and strong: · Sarah's big and strong, just like the men she works with.as strong as an ox (=very strong): · Twenty years of working in the steel mill had made him as strong as an ox. ► powerful very strong - use this about someone's body, arms, muscles etc: · He was a tall man with a powerful physique. ► muscular someone who is muscular looks strong because you can see that they have big muscles: · She liked men who were tall and muscular.· He had broad shoulders and muscular arms.· He kept his firm muscular body in shape with an hour's run every morning. ► well-built a well-built man is strong and tall in an attractive way: · A well-built young man in uniform came to our table and asked the time.· Witnesses have described the attacker as white, six feet tall and well-built. ► strapping a strapping young man or young woman is strong, tall, and looks healthy and active: · She remembered Martin as a strapping youth with a big appetite.· The farmer's daughters were a fine pair of strapping young girls. ► brawny strong, with big muscles - use this especially to talk about someone who looks physically strong rather than intelligent: · The gardener's assistant arrived -- a brawny youth who never said a word.· He had a football player's physique: big head, thick neck, brawny shoulders, and heavy legs. very large and strong:  His brawny arms glistened with sweat.
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