Word Meanings - STOCKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Headstrong. G. Eliot.
Related words: (words related to STOCKY)
- THICKENING
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. - RATHER
Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville. - THICK WIND
A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. - THICK
1. Frequently; fast; quick. 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. L'Estrange. - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - THICK-SKINNED
Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland. - HEADSTRONG
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; - THICKNESS
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - THICKSET
1. A close or thick hedge. 2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath. - THICK-WINDED
Affected with thick wind. - THICKBILL
The bullfinch. - SHORT-HANDED
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. - SHORTHEAD
A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors. - HUNCHBACK
A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person. - TWISTING
a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7. - SHORTCAKE
An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. - STEMSON
A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow. - CORPULENT
1. Very fat; obese. 2. Solid; gross; opaque. Holland. Syn. -- Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See Stout. - INTERTWIST
To twist together one with another; to intertwine. - UNTWIST
1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.