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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /bɹɔːni/
• (米国発音) IPA: /bɹɔni/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /bɹɑni/

形容詞

brawny (comparative brawnier, superlative brawniest)

1. Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong.

   Rattler was a big, brawny fellow, and he stepped up in front of me, rolling up his sleeves.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     As he stood on one side, for a minute or so, unbuttoning his waist-coat and breeches, her fat, brawny thighs hung down

   • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 68:

     Once the pressure of the comparatively low-drivered J's was raised to 300 pounds, they ranked as the brawniest of 4-8-4's with a tractive force of 80,000 pounds.

2. Calloused; hardened.

派生語

• brawnily
• brawniness

発音

• IPA: /ˈbrau̯niː/

形容詞

brawny

1. muscular, muscly
2. (rare) fleshy (of fruit)

派生した語

• English: brawny

参照

• “braunī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.