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stocky

Pronunciation:  'stâkee

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [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"
 
 Synonyms: compact, fat, heavyset, thick, thickset
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Stock"y\, a. [From {Stock}.]
1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
   --Addison.

         Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems.     --Mrs. H. H.
                                               Jackson.

2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.

 

 

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