beefy

beefy
adj
1. brawny, muscular, strong, powerful, burly, sturdy, strapping, robust, stalwart, bouncing; thickset, stocky, solid, heavy, chunky; bulky, hulky, hulking; massive, massy, ponderous, gargantuan, elephantine.
2. obese, overweight, corpulent, gross; paunchy, potbellied, round-bellied, big-bellied, abdominous, Inf. bay-windowed, Inf. corporational, Sl. beer-bellied, Obs. gorbellied.
3. fat, plump, fleshy, rotund, buxom, well-fed; pudgy, Chiefly Brit. podgy, chubby, portly, stout; dumpy, squab, lumpish; swollen, bloated, puffy; large, big, ample, full.

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