wirywir‧y /ˈwaɪəri $ ˈwaɪri/ adjective 
- a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico
- Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.
- A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling.
- About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.
- Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shooting birds.
- His father, Michael, was a short, wiry, quiet man, a sheet-metal worker.
- Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair.
- Short, wiry, and with a dark and rather damaged complexion, he could have been a retired flyweight boxer.
- The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.
thin and strong-looking► lean thin and physically fit, especially because you do a lot of exercise or physical work: · He's a very handsome man: tall, lean and tanned with thick blond hair.· At seventy-two my grandfather was lean and strong and I expected him to live forever.· She had a runner's lean physique and an overall healthy glow.
► wiry a man or boy who is wiry is thin and strong, though often not very tall: · Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.· a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico
NOUN► man· Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shooting birds.· Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and darting, deep-set eyes.· Lou Minton was a wiry man with gaunt, chiseled features and prematurely gray hair, combed straight back.
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