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UK
/bɹˈɔːni/
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[ US /ˈbɹɔni/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹɔni/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
a muscular boxer
powerful arms
a hefty athlete
How To Use brawny In A Sentence
- It is smooth reading, and is attributed to Bertrand de Born, [3] who lived in the time when even the lion-hearted King Richard turned his brawny fingers to the luting of a song. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
- Without the advances in anaesthetics, brawny assistants would still be holding patients down while surgeons attacked with scalpels and saws and the patient lay there screaming.
- But the brawny, not yet furibund Figure, we say, is Jacques Danton; a name that shall be 'tolerably known in the The French Revolution
- “Name her not — and for an instant think not of her,” said the King, again straining the curtal-axe in his gripe, until the muscles started above his brawny arm, like cordage formed by the ivy around the limb of an oak. The Talisman
- Without the advances in anaesthetics, brawny assistants would still be holding patients down while surgeons attacked with scalpels and saws and the patient lay there screaming.
- A brawny warrior is just fine in the heavy plate armor with a big bag of loot over his shoulder while a slender mage will be more concerned with the lighter pieces of treasure.
- The son of a former major leaguer is brawny and powerful and has great hitting mechanics as taught by his father Jeff Burroughs, a former batting champion and AL Analyzing '98 amateur draft prospects
- Well, old alligator, what's the time o 'day?" asked another man, bringing down a brawny paw, with a resounding thump, upon the Herculean shoulders of the first querist, thereby giving me the information that in the West _alligator_ is a designation of the _genus homo_; in fact, that it is customary for a man to address his fellow-man as "old alligator," instead of "old fellow. The Englishwoman in America
- The point of low fantasy is to watch clean-limbed fighting men from Virginia clash flashing blades against surly yet brawny barbarians from Cimmeria during the last days of Rome on Mars or something, and maybe rescue a half-naked space princess from eldritch evil priests, eldritch chthonic demons, eldritch undead, eldritch pirates, eldritch highwaymen, eldritch encyclopedia salesmen of darkness. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
- Despite the constant messages we all get that women like brawny, beetling browed men covered in muscles, most women can tell you that the musclebound weightlifter isn't their style.