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stocky

/ˈstɒki/US/ˈstɑki/

stocky adjective: sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.

Adjective

stocky (comparative stockier, superlative stockiest)

  1. Sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.
    • The girl in the robe is still performing her transaction behind the counter. The transcatee is a stocky Spanish-speaking woman in an orange dress.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 182

stocky meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

stocky in Tamil

பருத்துக் குட்டையான

stocky in Malayalam

sturdy, thickset, heavily built
പൊക്കംകുറഞ്ഞു ദൃഢമായ, ബലിഷ്ഠനായ, കുറ്റിയാനായ, സ്ഫീത, തടിച്ച, തടിച്ചുകുറുതായ

stocky in Kannada

ಕುಳ್ಳನಾದ, ಟೊಣಪನಾದ, ಗುಜ್ಜಾರಿಯಾದ

Examples of stocky in a sentence

  • Blonds, brunettes, tall, stocky—it was a veritable smorgasbord of bronzed man-meat.
  • He was about 6′5″, and had dark, smooth, milk-chocolatey skin, and a stocky, football-player build.
  • He’s a middle-aged Litvak, a stocky man in mud-spotted trousers that drip over dried muddy heels.

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Synonyms of stocky

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Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of stocky

Forms of stocky

comparativestockier
superlativestockiest

Origin of stocky

From stock + -y.

Words formed from stocky

Words that rhyme with stocky

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Questions about stocky

What does stocky mean?
Stocky means sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.
What is stocky in Tamil?
Stocky in Tamil is பருத்துக் குட்டையான. See Stocky meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stocky?
Stocky is an adjective.
How do you pronounce stocky?
Stocky is pronounced /ˈstɒki/ (UK).

Words near stocky in the dictionary

  1. Stockwood
  2. stockwork
  3. stockworker
  4. stockworkers
  5. stockworks
  6. stocky
  7. stockyard
  8. Stockyard Creek
  9. Stockyard Hill
  10. stockyards
  11. Stocqueler

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stocky (page history and authors); stocky (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stocky (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); stocky (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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