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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: like or containing small sticky lumps; "the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough" [syn: chunky, lumpy]
2: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "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" [syn: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (chunkier; -est) Date: 1733 1. a. heavy, solid, and thick or bulky <a chunky sweater> <chunky bracelets>; especially stocky <an athlete with a chunky build> b. plump, chubby 2. filled with chunks <chunky peanut butter> • chunkily adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (chunkier, chunkiest) 1 containing or consisting of chunks. 2 short and thick; small and sturdy. 3 (of clothes) made of a thick material. Derivatives: chunkiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chunky Chunk"y, a. Short and thick. [U. S.] --Kane.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(chunkier, chunkiest) 1. A chunky person is broad and heavy. The soprano was a chunky girl from California. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. A chunky object is large and thick. ...a chunky sweater. ...chunky jewellery. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, snub-nosed, squab, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, well-fed