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muscly

muscly adjective: thewy, muscled.

Adjective

muscly (comparative musclier, superlative muscliest)

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

Forms of muscly

comparativemusclier
superlativemuscliest
alternative formmuscley

Origin of muscly

From muscle + -y.

Questions about muscly

What does muscly mean?
Muscly means thewy, muscled.
What part of speech is muscly?
Muscly is an adjective.

Words near muscly in the dictionary

  1. muscliest
  2. muscling
  3. muscling in
  4. muscling in on
  5. muscling up
  6. muscly
  7. Musco
  8. Muscogee
  9. Muscogee County
  10. Muscogees
  11. muscoid

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