stocky

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: stock=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

stocky, a. [From Stock.].

•  Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]

  "Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems."  [1913 Webster]
•  Headstrong.  G. Eliot.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stocky, adj. (stockier, stockiest) (of a person, plant, or animal) short and strongly built; thickset.

Derivative

stockily adv. stockiness n.

THESAURUS

stocky

adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, low-set, lumpish, lumpy, lusty, meaty, mesomorphic, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, short, snub-nosed, solid, squab, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, sturdy, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, well-fed

ROGET THESAURUS

stocky

Shortness

N shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer, short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary, shortly, in short.