Burly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 37 anagrams from letters in burly (blruy).
1250-1300; Middle English borli, burli, Old English borlīce (adv.) excellently, equivalent to bor(a) ruler + -līce -ly
On the sidewalk, a queue of men was being held in line by a burly cop.
She tried the direct, how-do-you-do handshake approach, but was blocked by a burly aide-de-camp.
Some big, burly, brainless cur of a fellow was always ahead of me.
Based on his sock puppet, I expected him to be a burly bearded giant clad in plaid—basically, a Canadian Paul Bunyan.
Old Dismukes was with them; burly, bushy, dingy, on a huge roan charger.
A burly man with bushy whiskers was waiting for us at the door.
In recent years, Montana has been electing a certain breed of burly, alpha male Democrats.
The film tells the story of Ron “Stray Dog” Hall, a burly, sixtysomething biker and Vietnam vet.
A burly Belgian, strapped with grenades and ammunition, towered above them.
No burly drayman or big butts of beer, were wanted for apologies.
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