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[syn: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset]
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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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]