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Word to describe lean, but strong person.?

I need a single word to describe the build of a person who is lean, even skinny, but strong, with well-shaped muscles... A body that was formed by intensive manual labor and temporary underfeeding, not workout and body-building. Is sinewy ok? Gnarled? Knotted?

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  • Bazza
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
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    WIRY : = lean, tough, and sinewy

  • forte88eng
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    tough, wiry, muscled.

    Source(s): teacher of english as a foreign language.
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