1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden ii. 98 A man exceeding grosse-bodyed.
1696 tr. J. Dumont 7 I willingly leave all those Gross-body'd Wines to the Germans.
1727 A. Hamilton I. xxviii. 346 Their Trees are not so high nor gross bodied as those which grow on the Continent.
1877 E. Dowden vi. 99 We know him to be a gross-bodied, self-indulgent old sinner.