'Strapping' definitions:
Definition of 'strapping'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Strapping'
From: GCIDE
- Strapping \Strap"ping\, a. Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. --Farquhar. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Strapping'
From: GCIDE
- Strap \Strap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Strapping.]
- 1. To beat or chastise with a strap. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fasten or bind with a strap. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'strapping'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adipose,
- bastinado,
- basting,
- battery,
- beating,
- beefy,
- belting,
- big-bellied,
- bloated,
- blowzy,
- bosomy,
- bouncing,
- brawny,
- buffeting,
- burly,
- buxom,
- caning,
- chubby,
- chunky,
- clubbing,
- corporal punishment,
- corpulent,
- cowhiding,
- cudgeling,
- distended,
- doughty,
- drubbing,
- dumpy,
- fat,
- fattish,
- flagellation,
- flailing,
- fleshy,
- flogging,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- full,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- fustigation,
- gross,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- hearty,
- heavyset,
- hefty,
- hippy,
- horsewhipping,
- husky,
- imposing,
- iron-hard,
- lacing,
- lashing,
- lusty,
- meaty,
- mighty,
- nervy,
- obese,
- obstinate,
- overweight,
- paunchy,
- pistol-whipping,
- plump,
- podgy,
- portly,
- potbellied,
- potent,
- powerful,
- pudgy,
- puffy,
- puissant,
- pursy,
- rawhiding,
- red-blooded,
- robust,
- robustious,
- roly-poly,
- rotund,
- rugged,
- scourging,
- spanking,
- square,
- squat,
- squatty,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stocky,
- stout,
- stripes,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- sturdy,
- swingeing,
- switching,
- swollen,
- thick-bodied,
- thickset,
- thrashing,
- top-heavy,
- trouncing,
- truncheoning,
- tubby,
- vigorous,
- well-fed,
- whipping