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stocky

/stok-ee/US // ˈstɒk i //UK // (ˈstɒkɪ) //

粗壮的,矮胖的,矮胖,肥硕的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    stock·i·er, stock·i·est.

    • : of solid and sturdy form or build; thick-set and, usually, short.
    • : having a strong, stout stem, as a plant.

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Examples

  • When you first spy the pillow-y shape of a Myobatrachus gouldii or the stocky arms of a Hemisus perreti, you might not think of how much muscle is packed in there.

  • Yousef, a stocky 35-year-old woman with long black hair, looks away from me most of the time when she is describing the beatings.

  • Wearing a plaid shirt, the stocky singer looked like a bricklayer playing an open mic at a bar.

  • Phyllis is a short, stocky, enraged-seeming woman with a high, strident voice and piercing stare.

  • FIJI, a source who attended Lafayette with Stocky told The Daily Beast, is mostly made up of lacrosse and baseball players.

  • The stocky, intense son of immigrant parents, Chayefksy was born and raised in the Bronx.

  • Superphosphate makes dark-colored, thick-leaved, stocky (p. 419) plants.

  • An express rolled in and cutting over for it, the stocky man brushed Lamb.

  • A stocky man dodged around from behind the woman and came rapidly down the platform, neat, crisp, briefcase under his arm.

  • One of them was short and rather stocky, and his face had a sort of hard, hungry look; and the other was big and barrel-bodied.

  • At once I noticed that a new man had appeared among them—a red-faced, stocky man wearing a frock-coat and a shiny silk hat.