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bowerly

bowerly is the dialectal form of burly.

Meaning of burly

Adjective (1)

burly (comparative burlier, superlative burliest)

  1. (usually) Large, well-built, and muscular.
    • He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.
  2. (UK, slang, East End of London) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
    • That goal was burly.
  3. (US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
    • That wave was burly! (i.e. large, dangerous and difficult to ride)

Adjective (2)

burly (comparative more burly, superlative most burly)

  1. Full of burls or knots; knotty.

Questions about bowerly

What is bowerly the dialectal form of?
Bowerly is the dialectal form of burly.

Words near bowerly in the dictionary

  1. bowering
  2. bowerland
  3. bowerless
  4. bowerlet
  5. bowerlets
  6. bowerly
  7. Bowerman
  8. Bowermans
  9. bowers
  10. Bowers Gifford
  11. Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowerly (page history and authors); burly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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