stocky

«stocky» in Mova's school dictionary: short, broad and strong-looking, with a solid body — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (stocky, stockier, stockiest)

meaning for a pupil

A stocky person or animal is short, broad and strong-looking, with a solid body. tree →

sense in the lessons

Stories: describing a character as stocky gives a picture of a short, sturdy, strong build, like a rugby player or a dwarf in fantasy books. Nature: some horse and dog breeds are stocky (Shetland ponies, bulldogs). It is a fairly neutral, polite word, not an insult.

examples

• The farmer was a stocky man with big hands. tree →
• The stocky pony carried the bags up the hill. tree →
• Bulldogs are stocky dogs. tree →
• Our goalkeeper is short and stocky. tree →
• A stocky dwarf guarded the door. tree →
• He grew stocky and strong from working on the farm. tree →

note

Comparative: stockier, stockiest (y changes to i). Similar: sturdy, thickset, chunky. Opposite: slim, lanky, slender. Not the same as «stock» (things kept in a shop).

In the corpora

• Przewalski's horses are short and stocky, sandy brown, with a stiff mane that stands up like a brush.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stocky» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.