Wurly vs Burly - What's the difference?

wurly | burly |

As a noun wurly

is an Australian indigenous shelter made from small branches with leaves still attached.

As an adjective burly is

large, well-built, and muscular.

wurly

English

Noun

(wurlies)

An Australian indigenous shelter made from small branches with leaves still attached.

References

*E Warburton, p. xv, The Paddocks Beneath "at every creek and gully you would see their wurlies and their fires at night"

burly

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Adjective

(er)

(usually, of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.

He's a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.

She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

(slang) Originating from the east end of London, England. An expressive term to mean something is good, awesome, amazing, unbelievable. e.g That goal was burly, or Räikkönen is a burly Formula 1 driver.

(slang) Originating from surfer culture and/or Southern California. An expressive term to mean something is of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.

That wave was burly ! (i.e. large, dangerous and difficult to ride)

This hike is going to be burly , but worth it because there is good body surfing at that beach.