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having muscles capable of exerting great physical force
- the store manager always asked the brawniest person there to do the heavy lifting
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marked by a well-developed musculature
- brawny arms that weren't developed in the gym but by years of work in the construction business
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“Brawny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brawny. Accessed 20 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of brawny was in 1581
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