stockyadjective
uk/ˈstɒk.i/us/ˈstɑː.ki/A stocky person, especially a man is fairly short and has a body that is wide across the shoulders and chest:
The man was described as short and stocky and very strong.
Synonym
thickset
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal physiology: fat or well-built
- ample
- baby fat
- beefy
- blubber
- broad in the beam idiom
- buxom
- chubby
- dumpy
- fatness
- fatten sb/sth up
- fatty
- heavyset
- husky
- meaty
- middle-age spread
- obesity
- pudgy
- puppy fat
- rotund
- well built
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stockily
adverb uk/ˈstɒk.əl.i/us/ˈstɑː.kəl.i/
a stockily-built man
stockiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈstɒk.i.nəs/us/ˈstɑː.ki.nəs/