Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stocky"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stocky \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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