different between burly vs elephantine
burly
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??li/
- Rhymes: -??(r)li
Etymology 1
From Middle English burly, burely, borly, burlich, borlich, borlic (“tall, stately”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots burely, burly (“rough, stout, sturdy, strong”). Perhaps from Old English *b?rl?? (“noble, stately”, literally “bowerly”), equivalent to bower +? -ly; or from Old English *byrl?? (“high, raised”), from byre (“raised area, mound”), cognate with Old High German burl?h, purl?h (“lofty, elevated, high, exalted”), related to Old High German burjan (“to raise, lift, push up”). See burgeon.
Alternative forms
- bowerly (dialectal)
Adjective
burly (comparative burlier, superlative burliest)
- (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- (Britain, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
- (US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
Translations
Etymology 2
burl +? -y
Adjective
burly (comparative more burly, superlative most burly)
- Full of burls or knots; knotty.
Middle English
Adjective
burly
- Alternative form of burely
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elephantine
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?l.?.?fæn.tin/, /?l.?.?fæn.t?n/, /?l.?.?fæn.ta?n/
Adjective
elephantine (comparative more elephantine, superlative most elephantine)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of elephants.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 179:
- This last summer Hanecki had captured Lenin’s imagination with his plans to found a trading company of his own in Europe, or take a partnership in some existing firm and make guaranteed monthly remittances to the Party out of his profits. This was not a Russian pipe dream: every move had been worked out with impressive precision. Kuba hadn’t thought of it himself, it was the brainchild of the elephantine genius Parvus, who had been writing to him from Constantinople. Parvus, once as poor as any other Social Democrat, had gone to Turkey to organize strikes, and now wrote frankly that he had all the money he needed (if rumor was right, he was fabulously wealthy) and that the time had come for the Party too to get rich.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 179:
- Very large.
Synonyms
- (of or relating to elephants): elephantic, elephantlike
- (very large): See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Derived terms
- elephantine epoch
- elephantine leprosy
- elephantine tortoise
Translations
Latin
Adjective
elephantine
- vocative masculine singular of elephantinus
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