muscly

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Etymology

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From muscle-ly.

Adjective

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muscly (comparative musclier, superlative muscliest)

  1. thewy, muscled
    • 1879, Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls:
      One whipcord nerve in the muscly mass from neck to shoulder-blade / Of the mountainous man...
  2. (figuratively) Strong, powerful

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