| 单词 | stocky |
| 释义 | stocky (once / 4610 pages) adj The adjective stocky means wide and sturdy. The big, strong guy who works tossing heavy boxes up on a loading dock at a warehouse is stocky. People who are stocky tend to be somewhat short and fairly heavy. Your stocky next-door neighbor is strong and solid, and his stocky bull dog is too. Interestingly, stocky meant "made of wood" back in 1400, and it was also used to distinguish "weedy" plants from more woody ones. Stocky has evolved since then to describe people with bodies "like tree trunks." WORD FAMILYstocky: stockier, stockiest, stockily USAGE EXAMPLESJaguars — spotted, stocky and stealthy — once roamed freely throughout the wilds of the Western United States. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) A stocky, middle-aged man with short blond hair, Day had been made Free State Project chairman in 2014. Slate(Nov 30, 2016) “Where are we supposed to unwind?” said Samer Ballout, a stocky 35-year-old civil servant who was meditating on the beach. Seattle Times(Nov 24, 2016) adj having a short and solid form or stature stocky legs Syn compact, heavyset, thick, thickset little, short low in stature; not tall |
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