adjective, beef·i·er, beef·i·est.
- of or like beef.
- brawny; thickset; heavy.
- obese.
adjective beefier or beefiest
- like beef
- informal muscular; brawny
- informal fleshy; obese
adj.
“brawny,” 1743, from beef (n.) in colloquial extended sense “human muscle” + -y (2). Related: Beefiness.