Stocky \Stock"y\, a. [From Stock.]
   1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
      --Addison.
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            Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems.     --Mrs. H. H.
                                                  Jackson.
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   2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
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	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]
     [also: stockiest, stockier]

	

	68 Moby Thesaurus words for "stocky":
   adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy,
   brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy,
   fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
   imposing, low-set, lumpish, lumpy, lusty, meaty, mesomorphic,
   obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied,
   pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund,
   short, snub-nosed, solid, squab, square, squat, squattish, squatty,
   stalwart, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, sturdy,
   swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby,
   turned-up, well-fed