Stocky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stocky \Stock"y\, a. [From {Stock}.]
     1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
        --Addison.
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              Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems.     --Mrs. H. H.


                                                    Jackson.
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     2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stocky
       adj : heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact
             build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a
             thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" [syn: {compact},
              {heavyset}, {thick}, {thickset}]
       [also: {stockiest}, {stockier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "stocky":
     adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy,
     brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy,
     fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
     imposing, low-set, lumpish, lumpy, lusty, meaty, mesomorphic,
     obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied,
     pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund,
     short, snub-nosed, solid, squab, square, squat, squattish, squatty,
     stalwart, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, sturdy,
     swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby,
     turned-up, well-fed