Strapping vs Virile - What's the difference?
strapping | virile |
(obsolete) Of a young woman full of vigor; lusty.
Of a person of either sex; Having a sturdy muscular physique; robust.
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Adhesive plaster for strapping injuries.
A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.
A beating with a strap.
Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.
As adjectives the difference between strapping and virile
is that strapping is (obsolete) of a young woman full of vigor; lusty while virile is being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.As a verb strapping
is .As a noun strapping
is adhesive plaster for strapping injuries.strapping
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(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=But while the two strapping front men battered Foster, they could not better him, and in the absence of tangible reward for his creative efforts, Pennant almost took matters into his own hands, curling a low free-kick inches wide of Foster's left-hand upright.}}
