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brawnsome

brawnsome adjective: characterised by brawn (i.e. physical strength, muscularity).

Adjective

brawnsome (comparative more brawnsome, superlative most brawnsome)

  1. (rare) Characterised by brawn (i.e. physical strength, muscularity).
    • […] was one of the loveliest little ladies that ever came out of a country which produces bonny lasses with apparently as much ease and certainty as it puts forth brawnsome and good-looking, if slightly appetiteful, laddies.1925, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 198, page 150
    • If a Giant had spawned a brawnsome brat […]2012, Simon Raven, September Castle

Forms of brawnsome

comparativemore brawnsome
superlativemost brawnsome

Origin of brawnsome

From brawn + -some.

Questions about brawnsome

What does brawnsome mean?
Brawnsome means characterised by brawn (i.e. physical strength, muscularity).
What part of speech is brawnsome?
Brawnsome is an adjective.

Words near brawnsome in the dictionary

  1. brawniest
  2. brawnily
  3. brawniness
  4. brawning
  5. brawns
  6. brawnsome
  7. brawny
  8. brawt
  9. brawts
  10. brawtus
  11. braxies

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