beefy
/ˈbiːfi
/adjective (beefier, beefiest)
1 informal Muscular or robust: he shrugged his beefy shoulders...
- It wasn't until Sophia felt a heavy hand on her shoulder and Keeran got the same beefy hand grabbing his muscular shoulder that they broke apart.
- Sam, with his muscles, only had to take off his t-shirt to be tapped on the shoulder by a beefy Dutchman on holiday.
- ‘Right away, honey,’ said the man, swinging a white towel over one beefy shoulder.
Synonyms
muscular, brawny, hefty, burly, strapping, well built, thickset, solid, strong, powerful, heavy, robust, sturdy, stocky;
fat, stout, plump, overweight, chubby, obese, flabby, fleshy, rotund, portly, corpulent, paunchy, beer-bellied, dumpy
informal hunky, hulking, husky, ripped, shredded, tubby, roly-poly
British informal podgy
North American informal buff
US informal jacked
1.1Large and impressively powerful: the beefy 1960s British amplifier...
- South African rugby prides itself on its physical approach to the game and has encountered few problems churning out beefy, powerful packs capable of bullying any opposition up-front.
- These, especially in this length, are beefy skis.
- I suppose, in the end, I was a little disappointed, not because each of these wasn't a big, beefy concept with a positively gargantuan hinterland of potential consequences.
2Tasting like beef.Beef, while thought of as, well, beefy, is not usually the boldest of meats when roasted....
- It tastes beefy in every respect: fleshy, brawny and intense.
- A good texture and quite strong on the seasonings but not hugely beefy.
Derivatives
beefily
- Several fans spot him and he trots through the stage door, but not before clasping my hand beefily.
- Kasarova, here beefily attired in dowdy colours, looks as if she ‘works out’ in the local gym: one is surprised the ugly sisters weren't covered in bruises from her solid left hooks.
- Bizarrely light for being the richest, tenderest, most beefily flavorful beef ribs Ive ever had, if I do say so myself.
beefiness
- Tangy at first but with a hint of robust beefiness.
- Its like the best beef ever created, only with more beefiness and less stuff that doesn't taste like beef…
- Once I dumped my preconceptions I was able to appreciate the spare subtlety and deep beefiness of the northern variety.
Rhymes
- kick something in
- kick something into touch (or into the long grass)
- kick something off
- kicksorter
- kickstand
- kick-start
- kick-starter
- kick the bucket
- kick the can down the road
- kick the shit out of
- kick the tin
- kick-to-kick
- kick-turn
- kick up
- kick up (a) dust
- kick up a fuss (or a stink)
- kick up one's heels
- kicky
- kid
- kid brother
- kidder
- Kidderminster
- Kidderminster carpet
- kiddie
- kiddie porn