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单词 stocky
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stockyadj.

Brit. /ˈstɒki/, U.S. /ˈstɑki/
Etymology: < stock n.1 + -y suffix1.
1. Made of a stock, made of wood. Obsolete. rare.Misprinted stokly in Min. P. Vernon MS. (E.E.T.S.).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > made or constructed of wood
treenc1000
stockya1400
treea1400
timberedc1412
timber?1530
wooden1538
woodya1540
ligneal1599
ligneous1812
carpentered1837
betimbered1847
wooden-built1860
a1400 Disp. Mary & Cross 518 in Leg. Rood On a stokky stede [i.e. the Cross] He Rod we Rede.
2.
a. Of a plant: of stout and sturdy growth; not ‘drawn up’, ‘weedy’, or spindling.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > strong, vigorous, or plump
strongOE
thriftyc1440
well-brawneda1450
valiant1542
pubble1566
stout1573
corroborate1581
bunting1584
lusty1600
plump1600
vegetous1610
blought1611
boisterous1622
stocky1622
robust1627
steera1642
vegete1655
jollya1661
vigorous1706
well-to-do1852
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvii. 136 Those scattered trees..send from their stocky bough, A soft and sappy Gum.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 328 The plants so taken out must be planted on another compartment at the same distance, and they will come to full stocky hearts in April and May.
1883 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden ii. 109 Vigorous stocky shoots from the buried joints of the plant.
1898 F. W. Card Bush Fruits 360 It is generally believed that stockier and better plants are obtained from cuttings.
b. Of a root: woody, as distinguished from fibrous.
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the world > plants > part of plant > root > [adjective] > of or belonging to root
tuberous1668
stemmy1728
radical1753
radicous?1764
radicellar1819
rhizoid1859
rhizomatic1864
rhizomic1898
rooty1905
stocky1915
1915 Times 25 Sept. 9/5 Take up some of the outer runners with good fibrous roots and replant them carefully at once. Old plants with stocky roots will not move well.
3.
a. Of a person, animal, etc.: of stout and sturdy build; short and thick-set.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad
short shoulderedc1405
bunting1584
squaddy1593
chubby1611
truncheon1611
squat1630
squabbish1666
truss1674
squab1675
squad1675
stocky1676
punch1679
trunch1683
squat1688
stub1711
fodgel1724
thick-set1724
puddy1747
chunky1749
dumpy1750
squabby1754
knurly1758
clunch1776
trunchy1778
fubsy1780
punchy1780
humpty-dumpty1785
trunched1787
pudgy1788
fubby1790
runty1807
squattish1809
roly-poly1818
stumpy1822
hoddy-doddy1824
spuddya1825
hodmandod1825
stubby1831
podgy1832
fubsical1834
dumpty1847
fatling1847
stuggy1847
nuggety1856
cloddy1876
blocky1879
chumpy188.
cobby1883
squidgy1891
stockish1913
pyknic1925
humpisha1935
1676 Poor Robins Intelligence 23–30 May 1/1 A well-set Fellow of very good natural parts, having a broad back, and a stocky leg, [etc.].
1711 London Gaz. No. 4917/4 Lost.., a stockey bright bay Gelding.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 433. ¶6 They had no Titles of Honour among them, but such as denoted some Bodily Strength or Perfection, as such an one the Tall, such an one the Stocky.
1725 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 5 Nov. 4 He is a fair stocky Fellow.
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 Oct. 150 A particular race of sheep, called the Cotswold breed... They are short and stocky.
1864 Daily Tel. 13 Aug. Well-built stocky horses, for artillery and other military work.
1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 783 Sturdy and stocky as a Jersey bull.
1900 W. R. Moody & A. P. Fitt Life D. L. Moody vii. 69 A young man..short and stocky in figure.
in combination.1905 A. C. Gunter Conscience of King vi. 90 A rather thickset stocky built woman.
b. figurative of a quality.
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1882 H. E. Scudder Noah Webster i. 3 His square, upright tombstone..commemorates the stocky virtues of integrity and piety.
4. dialect ? Not amenable to control, intractable; full of spirits, boisterous.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant
unbuxoma1250
unbowsomec1290
sturdy13..
wildc1350
stubbornc1386
unbaina1400
stoutc1410
kimeta1450
staffish?a1513
untractable1538
intractable1545
sullen1577
restiff1578
indocile1603
resty1603
hot-mouthed1609
immorigerous1623
intractive1623
uncompliable1626
restivea1628
non-complying1649
uncompliant1659
incompliant1706
unobliging1707
recalcitrant1797
unbiddable1825
stocky1836
recalcitrary1861
calcitrant1866
non-cooperative1867
recalcitrating1870
ropeable1870
non-cooperating1895
bolshie1918
1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 31 Stockey, iritable, headstrong, and contrary, combined.
1856 ‘G. Eliot’ Scenes Clerical Life I. 86 Little Dickey, a boisterous boy of five..was squatting quiet as a mouse at her knee... He was a boy whom Mrs. Hackit, in a severe mood, had pronounced ‘stocky’..; but seeing him thus subdued into goodness, she smiled at him.
1866 Mrs. H. Wood Elster's Folly II. xiii. 323 Afore that drownding of his Lordship last year, Davy was the boldest and stockiest rip going.
5. Of manner, etc.: stiff, severe.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally detached
queamishc1430
squeamish1561
dry1637
unconcerned1660
inconcerned1688
aloof1872
stocky1876
detached1913
clinical1928
1876 J. E. Hopkins Rose Turquand ii ‘Good morning, Rose’, said Mrs. Adair, in her stockiest tones, touching it with two frosty fingers.

Derivatives

ˈstockily adv.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adverb] > and broadly
dumpily1880
stumpily1886
stockily1892
pudgily1894
squidgily1933
1892 Harper's Mag. Mar. 530/1 A pair of stockily built horses.
ˈstockiness n.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > state of having
couragenessc1440
stourness1530
robusticity1777
sturdiness1863
chunkiness1879
stockiness1890
robustness1973
1890 Christian World Pulpit XXXVIII. 359/1 The stockiness and sturdiness of coming generations.
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