bemuscled

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ muscled.

Adjective

bemuscled (comparative more bemuscled, superlative most bemuscled)

1. (literary) Having large muscles.
   • 1971, James Blake, The Joint, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, page 376:

     All the bemuscled residents of the hotel were huddling in the lobby looking like sailors' wives waiting on the dock.

   • 1993 May 4, Tim McGirk, “Star's arrest worries the film industry: Indian cinema is no longer popular with politicians”, in The Independent‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-04-15:

     But the arrest of Sunjay Dutt, who usually plays a singing, dancing, bemuscled hero, has also plunged the Bombay film world into a witchhunt similar to Hollywood's anti-Communist purge in the 1950s.

   • 2003 August 23, “A weight on their shoulders”, in The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-11:

     The only men who seem to be relaxed at the gym are those who spend half their lives there - the personal trainers, the addicts, the pros. We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym. And, secretly, I wonder: how do I get anywhere near that level of tautness?

   • 2012 March 2, Lisa Miller, “To Putter, Divine”, in New York Magazine‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-11:

     As fantasies go, this one is beyond innocent, involving neither a bemuscled UPS man nor an indulgent yoga boot camp with my best friend in Tulum.

   • 2013, Francis Knight, Fade to Black, London: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 93:

     I was quite glad to have some wood between me and the bemuscled specimens of manhood in the hall, bristling with sharp things and making me feel inadequate.