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Chesty   Listen
adjective
chesty  adj.  
1.
Marked by a large or well-developed chest.
Synonyms: big-chested.
2.
Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; as, chesty as a peacock.
Synonyms: arrogant, self-important.





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"Chesty" Quotes from Famous Books



... suit of clothes and he felt that he looked pretty decent. He could only do his best in the matter of bearing. He always thought that, so long as a fellow didn't get "chesty" and kept his head from swelling, he was all right. Of course he had never been in one of these swell Fifth Avenue houses, and he felt a bit nervous—but Miss Vanderpoel would have told her father what sort of fellow he was, and her father was likely to be something like herself. ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... Wayne Carey's voice from the door. "You're having more fun out here than we are in there, and that's not fair. The lord of the manor is getting so chesty over the delights of a country home in a February snowbank that he's ...
— The Indifference of Juliet • Grace S. Richmond
... for nineteen cents apiece. Fifty-seven hundred and odd dollars was our stock, and about a hundred and forty dollars each man's share. We felt a little bit chesty after that. We were not the first to market that year, but we were the first since the early flurry, and the biggest stock so far that ...
— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly


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