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    [Adjective]  | "bur*ly" | \ ˈbər-lē \


    1: strongly and heavily built : husky


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English;

    [Noun]  | "hur*ly-bur*ly" | \ ˌhər-lē-ˈbər-lē \


    1: uproar, tumult


    Origin: 1539 ;

     Probably alteration & reduplication of hurling, gerund of hurl;

    [Adjective]  | "burly" 


    1: strongly and heavily built;


      * e.g., " ... a burly delivery man brought the furniture "



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    [Noun]  | "hurly-burly" 


    1: a state of noisy, confused activity;


      * e.g., " ... lost sight of his children in all the hurly-burly of the fair "



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     [ "burly" ]

    1: to have huge muscles and is tough as nails.

      * e.g.,  ... dude, my chevy is the most burly thing ever, its had like 20 wrecks and its still going. nothing can penetrate it. 

     [ "burly" ]

    1: To convey in an ebonics tone that an activity has either just started, or is yet to begin.

      * e.g.,  ... Hey man, what's the score? 

     [ "burly" ]

    1: The city of Burlington (specifically Burlington, Ontario, Canada).

      * e.g.,  ... "Oi, there's a show in the Burly this Friday." 

     [ "burly" ]

    1: A descritive word, emphasising phattness in an activity, for example, skateboarding, or other similar sports.

      * e.g.,  ... "Did you see Burly Chalres crank that phat seven stair?" 

     [ "burly" ]

    1: combination beautiful and gnarly-- burly

      * e.g.,  ... that broad was burly man 

     [ "burly" ]

    1: strong,bomb and nuke proof

      * e.g.,  ... burly banshee morphone 

     [ "Burli" ]

    1: If you play Ingress and doing Mission mosaiques there, a Burli means, that you undeliberatly mix up the regular order of the individual missions. As a result you have a broken image showing up in your Player profile.

      * e.g.,  ... Oh no, I made a mistake, now I‘ve got a Burli in my Profile 

     [ "Burly" ]

    1: To be lumberjack like. MUST HAVE FACIAL HAIR and be somewhat muscular. Burly people are usually very nice. Burly people arent skinny, they have meat on their bones.

      * e.g.,  ... Ivey: did you see how burly Ian Greenhaul looked today ?! 

     [ "Burlies" ]

    1: When you lay down in your bed totally drunk and you feel as if the world is spinning.

      * e.g.,  ... No man I've got the burlies. 

     [ "Burly" ]

    1: Hufty without that touch of oomph

      * e.g.,  ... Oooooh! Look at that burly nerd!!! 

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