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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Strong and muscular. See Synonyms at muscular.
  2. adj. Hardened; calloused.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Fleshy; muscular; having large strong muscles; bulky; strong.
  2. Figuratively, firm; hardened; having great power of resistance.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Characterized by brawn; muscular; strong.
  2. adj. Calloused; hardened.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

Etymologies

  1. brawn +‎ -y (Wiktionary)

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  • “The Granite has what I would call a brawny look to it with muscular shoulders, a wide mouth of a grill, and an interior that conveys a solidness in tri-tone color.”

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  • “Chrysler is also planning to insert its truck advertisements in or around "brawny" shows like "Ice Road Truckers.”

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  • “Also, I lack the upper body strength required to really be considered "brawny".”

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  • “{42} It is not the least of Lord Macaulay's offences against art that he should have contributed the temporary weight of his influence as a critic to the support of so ignorant and absurd a tradition of criticism as that which classes the great writer here mentioned with the brutal if "brawny

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  • “As Mr. Swinburne has said, the art of Congreve is different in kind, not merely in degree, from the cruder and more boisterous product of the 'brawny' dramatist.”

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  • “For his turn as the skilled archer, Crowe is described as "brawny" with a "masculine swagger" and bearing much similarity to his title role in”

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  • “It's commonly associated with male street prostitutes or the kind of brawny erotic dancers who entertain women at bachelorette parties.”

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  • “With this in mind, Urs Hölzle is proposing that for Google work loads the "brawny" Xeons are better then the "wimpy" Atoms.”

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  • “Toyota; 2009's version shares many of the Tundra's styling cues, and ForbesAutos calls those details "brawny" and "imposing.”

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  • brtom The English language befriends the grand American expression—it is brawny enough, and limber and full enough. Whitman, Preface 1855 Dec 9, 2006

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