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stocky


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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