sinewish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sinewish (comparative more sinewish, superlative most sinewish)
- (obsolete) sinewy
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- his bodie hairie, as also not fleshie but sinewish and strong compact
References
[edit]- “sinewish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.