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Gorilla vs Burly - What's the difference?

gorilla | burly |

As a noun gorilla

is the largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for its trait of knuckle-walking.

As an adjective burly is

large, well-built, and muscular.

gorilla

English

(wikipedia gorilla)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for its trait of knuckle-walking
  • A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian.

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    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.
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    • 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.