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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



... secluded valleys of southern New Mexico, the old-time round-up is no more; the trails to Kansas and to Montana have become grass-grown or lost in fields of waving grain; the maverick steer, the regal longhorn, has been supplanted by his unpoetic but more beefy and profitable Polled Angus, Durham, and Hereford cousins from across the seas. The changing and romantic West of the early days lives mainly in story and in song. The last figure to vanish is the cowboy, the animating spirit of the vanishing era. He sits his horse ...
— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various

... strained his ears to catch what Rann was saying. He heard only the low and unintelligible monotone of his voice. A mocking smile was accompanying Rann's words. To-night, as at all times, this hawk who preyed upon human lives was immaculate. In all ways but one he was the antithesis of the beefy scoundrel who sat opposite him. On the hand that toyed carelessly with the fob of his watch flashed a diamond; another sparkled in his cravat. His dark hair was sleek and well brushed; his bristly little moustache was clipped in the latest fashion. He was not large. His hands, as he made ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood



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



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