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Chunky   /tʃˈəŋki/   Listen
Chunky

adjective
1.
Like or containing small sticky lumps.  Synonym: lumpy.
2.
Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature.  Synonyms: dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy.  "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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"Chunky" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the name of Frank Haywood was a rather chunky, well set-up lad of about sixteen. He had blue eyes, that were usually sparkling with mirth; and a mop of yellow hair; while his skin was darkened by long exposure to sun ...
— The Saddle Boys of the Rockies - Lost on Thunder Mountain • James Carson

... opened. A tall, solidly built man stood there, wearing a fringe of beard and a cheerful expression. The man had an enormous amount of muscle distributed more or less evenly over his chunky body, and a potbelly that looked as if he had swallowed a globe of the world. In addition, he was smoking a cigarette and letting out little puffs of smoke, rather like a ...
— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett

... o'clock in the afternoon the terms of surrender were written out and accepted, and General Lee left the house, as he departed cordially shaking hands with General Grant. A moment later he mounted his chunky gray horse, and lifting his hat as he passed out of the yard, rode off toward his army, his arrival there being announced to us by cheering, which, as it progressed, varying in loudness, told he was riding through the bivouac of ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan



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