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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



... of Indians, prowling about in hopes of doing something just like this. When they had seen Lewis, they had decided to shoot him. He was a stout, chunky lad, and looked to be older than his real age; they feared that he would run from them ...
— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin

... the animal was near enough to be seen distinctly, he furnished another surprise. He was entirely unlike any of the dogs of that neighborhood—the hounds, collies, or terriers. He was white, short, chunky. His head was very large for his size, his jaw undershot, his mouth enormous, and his lower lip drooped carelessly over a couple of fangs on each side. Under small ears his eyes popped almost out of his head, and his snub nose could scarcely be said to be a nose at ...
— Injun and Whitey to the Rescue • William S. Hart

... a pot roast, "Aunt Sarah" selected a thick, chunky piece of meat, weighing several pounds, and a small piece of beef suet which she cut into small bits, placed pan containing them on hot range, added a small, sliced onion, and when fat was quite hot she added the quickly ...
— Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit - among the "Pennsylvania Germans" • Edith M. Thomas

... it difficult to face the man. There was need to be excited about something, to talk with passion, in order to hold one's own in the presence of Denver, even when the chunky man was silent. He was not silent now; he seemed in a ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand

... talked in an airy sort of way about destroying the manuscript; but when one came down to it, how the deuce can a chap destroy a great chunky mass of paper in somebody else's house in the middle of summer? I couldn't ask to have a fire in my bedroom, with the thermometer in the eighties. And if I didn't burn the thing, how else could I get rid of it? Fellows on the battle-field eat dispatches to keep them from falling into the ...
— A Wodehouse Miscellany - Articles & Stories • P. G. Wodehouse


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