- stocky
- adjective (stockier; -est) Date: 1622 compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build • stockily adverb • stockiness noun
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stocky — stocky, thickset, thick, chunky, stubby, squat, dumpy are comparable when they apply to build of the human body and mean being relatively compact in form. Stocky implies a short and wide or thick build and is likely to be complimentary in… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Stocky — Stock y, a. [From {Stock}.] 1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. [1913 Webster] Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. [1913 Webster] 2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
stocky — c.1400, made of wood, from STOCK (Cf. stock) (n.1). Of plants, of stout and sturdy growth (not weedy) it is recorded from 1620s. Of persons, thick set, 1670s, suggestive of tree trunks, but Cf. also stock in sense of trunk of the human body (late … Etymology dictionary
stocky — [adj] short and overweight; short and muscular chunky, corpulent, fat, heavyset, plump, solid, squat, stout, stubby, sturdy, thick, thickset; concepts 491,773 Ant. lanky, skinny, tall, thin, underweight … New thesaurus
stocky — ► ADJECTIVE (stockier, stockiest) ▪ (especially of a person) short and sturdy. DERIVATIVES stockily adverb stockiness noun … English terms dictionary
stocky — [stäk′ē] adj. stockier, stockiest [ STOCK, n. 2 + Y2] 1. heavily built; sturdy; short and thickset 2. having a strong, often thick, stem: said of a plant … English World dictionary
Stocky — A slang term used by forex traders for the Swedish krona, which has the symbol SEK. The stocky remains separate from the euro, which Sweden has declined to adopt despite being part of the European Union since 1995. Although members of the… … Investment dictionary
stocky — UK [ˈstɒkɪ] / US [ˈstɑkɪ] adjective Word forms stocky : adjective stocky comparative stockier superlative stockiest a stocky person looks strong but is not tall … English dictionary
stocky — stock|y [ˈstɔki US ˈsta: ] adj comparative stockier superlative stockiest a stocky person is short and heavy and looks strong ▪ a stocky build >stockily adv >stockiness n [U] … Dictionary of contemporary English
Stocky — This interesting surname of English origin with variant spellings Stocky, Stockey, Stokey, Stuckey, etc., is a locational name from Stockey in Meeth, Devonshire, deriving from the old English pre 7th Century Stocc meaning stock, trunk or stump of … Surnames reference
stocky — adj. Stocky is used with these nouns: ↑build, ↑figure, ↑man … Collocations dictionary
