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Chunky  adj.  Short and thick. (U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chunky" Quotes from Famous Books



... Federal gunboat lay at anchor, steam up—a blackened, chunky, grimy thing of timber and iron plates, streaked with rust, smoke blowing horizontally from her funnels. And day after day she consulted hill and headland with her kaleidoscopic strings of flags; and headland and hill talked back with fluttering ...
— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers

... you'd call a chunky man, As if he'd been constructed on the summer cottage plan; He has a nose like Bonaparte; and round his mobile mouth Lies all the sensuous languor of the children of the South; His dealings with reporters who affect a weekly bust Have given to his violet eyes a shadow ...
— A Little Book of Western Verse • Eugene Field

... 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 ...
— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett

... the assistant, calmly lighting a fresh cigarette. And then to the water-boy, who was acting quartermaster: "Give me a rifle and a cartridge-belt, Chunky, and I'll ...
— A Fool For Love • Francis Lynde

... down at Kieran. He was a young man, sandy-haired, with a compact, chunky figure and a flat, hard face. His eyes were blue and intense, and they gave Kieran the feeling that this man was a wound-up spring. ...
— The Stars, My Brothers • Edmond Hamilton



Words linked to "Chunky" :   low-set, little, squat, unshapely, dumpy, lumpy



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