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# stocky

«stocky» in Mova's school dictionary: **short, broad and strong-looking, with a solid body** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (stocky, stockier, stockiest)

### meaning for a pupil

A stocky person or animal is short, broad and strong-looking, with a solid body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stocky/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Stories: describing a character as stocky gives a picture of a short, sturdy, strong build, like a rugby player or a dwarf in fantasy books. Nature: some horse and dog breeds are stocky (Shetland ponies, bulldogs). It is a fairly neutral, polite word, not an insult.

### examples

- The farmer was a stocky man with big hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stocky/#x1)
- The stocky pony carried the bags up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stocky/#x2)
- Bulldogs are stocky dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stocky/#x3)
- Our goalkeeper is short and stocky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stocky/#x4)
- A stocky dwarf guarded the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stocky/#x5)
- He grew stocky and strong from working on the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stocky/#x6)

### note

Comparative: stockier, stockiest (y changes to i). Similar: sturdy, thickset, chunky. Opposite: slim, lanky, slender. Not the same as «stock» (things kept in a shop).

### In the corpora

- [Przewalski's horses are short and stocky, sandy brown, with a stiff mane that stands up like a brush.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stocky» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stocky/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.