Definition: stocky

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

stocky
     adj : heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact
           build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a
           thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" [syn: compact,
            heavyset, thick, thickset]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Stocky \Stock"y\, a. [From Stock.]
   1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
      --Addison.

            Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems.     --Mrs. H. H.
                                                  Jackson.

   2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.