brawnsome

comparative more brawnsome · superlative most brawnsome

1. rareCharacterised by brawn (i.e. physical strength, muscularity).

   If a Giant had spawned a brawnsome brat […]

   2012, Simon Raven, September Castle

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   […] was one of the loveliest little ladies that ever came out of a country which produces bonny lasses with apparently as much ease and certainty as it puts forth brawnsome and good-looking, if slightly appetiteful, laddies.

   1925, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 198, page 150