big-ass vs burly

big-ass

adj
  • Very large, expansive, fat, impressive, muscular, intimidating, or important. 

burly

adj
  • Large, well-built, and muscular. 

  • Great, amazing, unbelievable. 

  • Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both. 

  • Full of burls or knots; knotty. 

How often have the words big-ass and burly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )