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stocky
[ stok-ee ]
adjective
- of solid and sturdy form or build; thick-set and, usually, short.
- having a strong, stout stem, as a plant.
stocky
/ ˈstɒkɪ /
adjective
- (usually of a person) thickset; sturdy
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Derived Forms
- ˈstockiness, noun
- ˈstockily, adverb
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Other Words From
- stocki·ly adverb
- stocki·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Yousef, a stocky 35-year-old woman with long black hair, looks away from me most of the time when she is describing the beatings.
Wearing a plaid shirt, the stocky singer looked like a bricklayer playing an open mic at a bar.
Phyllis is a short, stocky, enraged-seeming woman with a high, strident voice and piercing stare.
FIJI, a source who attended Lafayette with Stocky told The Daily Beast, is mostly made up of lacrosse and baseball players.
The stocky, intense son of immigrant parents, Chayefksy was born and raised in the Bronx.
Superphosphate makes dark-colored, thick-leaved, stocky (p. 419) plants.
An express rolled in and cutting over for it, the stocky man brushed Lamb.
A stocky man dodged around from behind the woman and came rapidly down the platform, neat, crisp, briefcase under his arm.
One of them was short and rather stocky, and his face had a sort of hard, hungry look; and the other was big and barrel-bodied.
At once I noticed that a new man had appeared among them—a red-faced, stocky man wearing a frock-coat and a shiny silk hat.
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