burly vs groaning

burly

adj
  • Full of burls or knots; knotty. 

  • Great, amazing, unbelievable. 

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

  • Large, well-built, and muscular. 

groaning

adj
  • Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain. 

  • That groans. 

noun
  • A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil. 

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