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thewy

thewy adjective: muscular; brawny.

Adjective

thewy (comparative more thewy, superlative most thewy)

  1. Muscular; brawny.
    • The rest of the crew, myself included, merely stood up to our spikes in heaving, whereas, unwontedly exhilarated, at every turn of the ponderous windlass, my belted comrade leaped atop of it, with might and main giving a downward, thewy, perpindicular heave, his raised eye bent in cheery animation...1854, Herman Melville, The Encantadas
  2. Sinewy.

thewy meaning in Bengali

thewy in Bengali

পেশিবহুল, বলিষ্ঠ, শিরাবহুল

Forms of thewy

comparativemore thewy
superlativemost thewy

Origin of thewy

From thew + -y.

Words that rhyme with thewy

16 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about thewy

What does thewy mean?
Thewy means muscular; brawny.
What is thewy in Bengali?
Thewy in Bengali is পেশিবহুল, বলিষ্ঠ, শিরাবহুল. See Thewy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is thewy?
Thewy is an adjective.

Words near thewy in the dictionary

  1. Thewlis
  2. Thewlises
  3. thewness
  4. thews
  5. thewsome
  6. thewy
  7. Thexton
  8. they
  9. they don't make them like that anymore
  10. they don't make them like they used to
  11. they hate us 'cause they ain't us

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thewy (page history and authors); thewy (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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