STOCKY


Meaning of STOCKY in English

stock ‧ y /ˈstɒki $ ˈstɑː-/ BrE AmE adjective ( comparative stockier , superlative stockiest )

a stocky person is short and heavy and looks strong:

a stocky build

—stockily adverb

—stockiness noun [uncountable]

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THESAURUS

■ person

▪ short someone who is short is not as tall as most people:

He was a short fat man.

▪ not very tall quite short. This phrase sounds more gentle than saying that someone is short :

She wasn’t very tall – maybe about 1.60 m.

▪ small short and with a small body:

My mother was a small woman.

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The girl was quite small for her age (=smaller than other girls of the same age) .

▪ petite used about a woman who is attractively short and thin:

She was a petite woman with blonde hair.

▪ stocky used about a boy or man who is short, heavy, and strong:

Harry was stocky and middle-aged.

▪ dumpy short and fat:

a dumpy girl with red hair

▪ diminutive formal literary very short or small – used especially in descriptions in novels:

a diminutive figure dressed in black

▪ stubby stubby fingers or toes are short and thick:

the baby’s stubby little fingers

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.