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

  1. 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

  1. 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.”
  2. Sinewy.

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Etymology

From thew + -y.

Anagrams of thewy

3 plays · some not in Scrabble

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