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beefy

[ bee-fee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, beef·i·er, beef·i·est.

beefy

/ ˈbiːfɪ /

Origin of beefy¹

First recorded in 1735–45; beef + -y ¹

There is no sign of the beefy NHL players who usually inhabit the place.

He was twenty, blond, beefy, even younger than Sonny, and just starting with the Hernando, Mississippi, ambulance team.

He wears large turbans, sports a long and bushy gray beard, is some six-feet three inches tall and weighs a beefy 250 pounds.

Never mind the fact that he was 45 pounds underweight when he auditioned to play the beefy lead.

He was a beefy figure who never quite lost his German accent despite living all his adult life in the United States.

There was short, beefy Sergeant McGinty, a representative from the police who was to serve as coordinator.

His red, beefy face was corded and knotted with tension, and his skin glistened with oily perspiration.

He who was always beefy became beefier; his eyes bulged out with fury.

It needed a beefy person with fat legs and a large amount of inexplicable dignity, a regular God-knows-why loftiness.

Yet a careful observer might have noticed that the pulse of his beefy neck was beating faster than usual.

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