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Original entry ↗With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive · Strong; bulky. · Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built. · Heavy, weighing a lot.
19th century. From heft (“weight”) + -y. The similarity with German heftig (“vigorous, violent, intense”) is apparently coincidental. From the German are Dutch, Danish, Norwegian heftig, Swedish häftig.
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