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."
例文
1. Three burly toughs elbowed their way to the front.
3人の肩の太い腰の丸い悪漢が前に押し込んだ。
2.The burly brute swagered forward，towering over me，and shouted.
五大三太の悪漢が気高く歩いてきて、上から目線で私に咆哮していた。
3.No one expects him to get involved in the hurly y- burly of campaigning.
騒々しい選挙運動に加わるとは誰も予想していなかった。
4.He was a big, burly man.
彼は大きくたくましい。
5.He has remained largely aloof from the hurly- burly of parliamentary politics.