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Beefy   /bˈifi/   Listen
Beefy

adjective
1.
Muscular and heavily built.  Synonyms: buirdly, burly, husky, strapping.  "Had a tall burly frame" , "Clothing sizes for husky boys" , "A strapping boy of eighteen" , "'buirdly' is a Scottish term"






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"Beefy" Quotes from Famous Books



... a feeble, querulous, short-sighted, and somewhat arrogant old gentleman to the life. He had snarled at his daughter—or his wife, whichever Jules was supposed to be, and, from the obvious youth of the young lady, probably she was the former. He had snapped at the big, beefy attendant who came behind him, and, reaching the train and making an effort to clamber aboard it—a none too easy performance on Continental railways—he had stumbled even more, had contrived to get into a position half-within and half-without the carriage, and had there ...
— With Joffre at Verdun - A Story of the Western Front • F. S. Brereton

... bake it, Arab fashion, under the superintendence of the Bsh-Buzk Husayn. Unfortunately it was served to us on the next day cold, whereas it should have been eaten at once, piping hot. The meat was dark, with a beefy rather than a gamey flavour, palatable, but by no means remarkable. There were loud regrets that a cuisse de chevreuil had not been marine; in fact, an infect odour of the Quartier Latin everywhere followed us; and when a guide told us ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton

... get in a frizz, my dears, about me," he said with dignity. "I be leaving this instant moment. As for you—" addressing Mr. Watlin—"you be a gert beefy critter, but don't be too sure you could tackle me, single-handed. I be terr'ble full of power when I'm roused, and it takes a deal to calm me down again." And he trotted to the head of the stairs and ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

... need to shove. The boys dived inside and the German closed the door. He moved to a window and pulled down the blind, then he faced them. He was a short man with a beefy face. His stomach rolled out over a wide ...
— A Yankee Flier Over Berlin • Al Avery



Words linked to "Beefy" :   strapping, burly, buirdly, Scotland, robust, husky



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