BURLY Meaning of BURLY in English a. 1.Stout, lusty, brawny, portly, bulky, strong, strapping, bouncing ( colloq. ).2.( Obsolescent .) Boisterous, noisy, blustering, swaggering, bullying, hectoring, coarse and rough. Soule. Dictionary of English synonyms. Словарь английских синонимов. 2012