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wiriest

  • superlative of wiry.

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The skinniest, wiriest player on our team slipped behind the Keesler defense to urinate on the Airmen’s goal, an obvious foul.

From New York Times Aug. 18, 2021

Several hours of hard fighting then ensued, but in the end when the mustang was conquered he made the toughest and wiriest of cow-ponies.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis

It's the cutest, wiriest thing a man kin run aginst.

From The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)

But one luckless day, as Featherhead was lolling in his hole, up came two boys with the friskiest, wiriest Scotch terrier you ever saw.

From Queer Little Folks by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

He is the wiriest athlete I know—extraordinary physical strength for his size—and one of the cleverest rascals out as a politician.

From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.