burly vs puny

burly

adj
  • Great, amazing, unbelievable. 

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

  • Large, well-built, and muscular. 

  • Full of burls or knots; knotty. 

puny

adj
  • Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak. 

  • (Frequently) ill; poorly, sickly. 

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