thewy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
Definition of thewy
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Muscular; brawny.
“The rest of the crew, myself included, merely stood up to our spikes in heaving, whereas, unwontedly exhilarated, at every turn of the ponderous windlass, my belted comrade leaped atop of it, with might and main giving a downward, thewy, perpindicular heave, his raised eye bent in cheery animation upon the slowly receding shore.”
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adj
-
Muscular; brawny.
“The rest of the crew, myself included, merely stood up to our spikes in heaving, whereas, unwontedly exhilarated, at every turn of the ponderous windlass, my belted comrade leaped atop of it, with might and main giving a downward, thewy, perpindicular heave, his raised eye bent in cheery animation upon the slowly receding shore.”
- Sinewy.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From thew + -y.
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