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Hefty

adjective

(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful. Synonyms: brawny, muscular, powerful, sinewy. "A muscular boxer" , "Powerful arms"

Of considerable weight and size.

Large in amount or extent or degree. Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy. "A goodly amount" , "Received a hefty bonus" , "A respectable sum" , "A tidy sum of money" , "A sizable fortune"

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"Hefty" Quotes from Famous Books

... see something of the little man's idealism in his work. He was a kind of traveling missionary in his way. A hefty talker, too. His eyes were twinkling now and I could see him ...

— Parnassus on Wheels • Christopher Morley

... are contained in the correspondence of Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, who was our Ambassador in Paris on and off between 1824 and 1841, a correspondence published in 1916, in two hefty volumes. The period covered is from 1781 to 1821, and the documents are mainly the letters to him of Lady Bessborough, which reveal a relation between the pair so curious that, to me, it is extraordinary that nobody should have called attention to them before. I can only account ...

— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett

... round—then, I say unhesitatingly, he had better leave it alone. Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love. A woman is only a woman, but a hefty ...

— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse

... from town did make a purty considerable speech," said the Deacon; "not so hefty as some I've heard, but real instructing. It made me feel as though I wanted to fight somebody—purty much as I used to when I was a boy, and heard my father tell how he fit in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and his grandsir in the ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 • Various

... everybody else." And while I glared he wrapped his hand lovingly about his cup, holding the spoon imprisoned between first and second fingers, and took another sibilant mouthful. "Any more of your back talk and I'll drink it out of m' saucer an' blow on it like the hefty party over there in the earrings is doin'. Calm ...

— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber

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