burly: [13] Burly has come down in the world over the centuries. Originally it meant ‘excellent, noble, stately’, and it appears to come from an unrecorded Old English adjective *būrlic, literally ‘bowerly’ – that is, ‘fit to frequent a lady’s apartment’. Gradually, connotations of ‘stoutness’ and ‘sturdiness’ began to take over, and by the 15th century the modern ‘heavily built’ had become well established. => boor, booth, bower
burly (adj.)
c. 1300, perhaps from Old English burlic "noble, stately," literally "bowerly," fit to frequent a lady's apartment (see bower). Sense descended through "stout," and "sturdy" by 15c. to "heavily built." Another theory connects the Old English word to Old High German burlih "lofty, exalted," related to burjan "to raise, lift."
雙語例句
1. Three burly toughs elbowed their way to the front.
三個膀粗腰圓的惡漢擠到了前麵。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The burly brute swaggered forward, towering over me, and shouted.
五大三粗的惡漢趾高氣揚地走過來，居高臨下地對我咆哮著。
來自柯林斯例句
3. No one expects him to get involved in the hurly-burly of campaigning.
誰也沒有料到他會加入到亂哄哄的競選活動。
來自柯林斯例句
4. He was a big, burly man.
他高大魁梧。
來自柯林斯例句
5. He has remained largely aloof from the hurly - burly of parliamentary politics.