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English Dictionary: stocky by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stocky
adj
  1. having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"
    Synonym(s): compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stocky \Stock"y\, a. [From {Stock}.]
      1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
            --Addison.
  
                     Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems.      --Mrs. H. H.
                                                                              Jackson.
  
      2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
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