Stocky

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
stocky
    adj 1: having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of
           compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky
           legs"; "a thickset young man" [syn: {compact},
           {heavyset}, {stocky}, {thick}, {thickset}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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