Meaning of CHUNKY
| Pronunciation: | | 'chungkee
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- [adj] like or containing small stick lumps; "the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough"
- [adj] short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
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| | Synonyms: | | dumpy, low-set, lumpy, short, squat, squatty, stumpy, unshapely |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Chunk"y\, a.
Short and thick. [U. S.] --Kane.
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| | Related Terms: | | adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, snub-nosed, squab, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, well-fed |
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