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Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English stocky

From stock + -y.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɒki/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɑki/
• Rhymes: -ɒki

stocky (comparative stockier, superlative stockiest)

1. (of a person or an animal) Sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.
   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 182:
     The girl in the robe is still performing her transaction behind the counter. The transcatee is a stocky Spanish-speaking woman in an orange dress.

• stubby

• thickset

• stockily

• stockiness

• Bulgarian: як (bg) (jak), набит (bg) (nabit)

• Catalan: rabassut (ca)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 精壯 / 精壮 (jīngzhuàng), 結實 / 结实 (zh) (jiēshi)

• Dutch: gedrongen (nl)

• Finnish: tanakka (fi), vanttera (fi)

• French: trapu (fr)

• German: stämmig (de), gedrungen (de), stabil gebaut

• Hungarian: köpcös (hu)

• Icelandic: þéttvaxinn

• Irish: balcánta, blocánta, dingthe, puntánach, staiceáilte, suite, talmhaí, teanntúil

• Korean: 다부지다 (ko) (dabujida)

• Polish: krępy (pl)

• Romanian: îndesat (ro), bondoc (ro), scurt şi gros, mic şi solid

• Russian: корена́стый (ru) (korenástyj)

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: зде̏паст
  Latin: zdȅpast (sh)

• Spanish: redoblado (es) (not very tall), rebolludo (short), rehecho (es) (middling height), trepado (es) (of an animal, middling height), rollizo (es) m

• Yoruba: síngbọnlẹ̀