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Definition of Chunky
1. Adjective. Like or containing small sticky lumps. "The dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough"
2. Adjective. Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature. "A stumpy ungainly figure"
Similar to: Little, Short
Derivative terms: Dumpiness, Squatness, Squattiness
Definition of Chunky
1. a. Short and thick.
Definition of Chunky
1. Adjective. having chunks ¹
2. Adjective. (euphemistic of a person) fat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chunky
1. stocky [adj CHUNKIER, CHUNKIEST] : CHUNKILY [adv] - See also: stocky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chunky
Literary usage of Chunky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ethnological Society by American Ethnological Society (1848)
"Is this chunky-Yard confined to the Cherokee Indians ? or have you observed ...
A sketch of the chunky- Yard will be very acceptable. Answer. ..."
2. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1892)
"chunky Stones. axes, in Tennessee copper spools are very numerous. Copper relics
in Georgia are ... The chunky stones represented in Fig. 2O are from Ohio. ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"chunky—contd. 1789 Ran away, a black Country-born Negro, middling chunky. —Id., Aug.
28. 1807 A broad, thick junk of a man, the perfect image of the squab ..."
4. "Marse Henry": An Autobiography by Henry Watterson (1919)
"At length chunky Towles, worn out, went off to bed. ... "In that case," says
chunky, "111 get up." When he reappeared Petway, the Whig leader of the ..."
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