[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stocky \stock"y\, a. from stock.
   1. short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
      --addison.
      1913 webster

            stocky, twisted, hunchback stems.     --mrs. h. h.
                                                  jackson.
      1913 webster

   2. headstrong. prov. eng. --g. eliot.
      1913 webster
see also:
stock 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
     also: stockiest, stockier
see also:
compact heavyset thick thickset stockiest stockier 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

68 moby thesaurus words for "stocky":
   adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy,
   brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy,
   fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
   imposing, low-set, lumpish, lumpy, lusty, meaty, mesomorphic,
   obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied,
   pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund,
   short, snub-nosed, solid, squab, square, squat, squattish, squatty,
   stalwart, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, sturdy,
   swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby,
   turned-up, well-fed

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