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stockily

stockily

1 6.6
In a short, broad, and solid way often about the body
  • adverb
  • /ˈstɑːkɪli/
: robustamente
  • The dog was stockily built, with a broad chest and thick legs that made it seem very strong.
  • stockily built

Examples

  • While we see this, and then a photograph of a stockily handsome Italian man, we hear:

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Regarding fat babies, my son was always in the low percentile, but he was so stockily built that it wasn't that noticeable, and once my doctor assured me. Every now and then, I read something on child obesity and freak out.

    Blog text (20)

  • He was in his mid-thirties, maybe stockily built, with a round head, thick neck, pale blond hair, a goatee, and shimmering locks to his shoulders like a blond Jesus Christ.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The athlete was stockily built, which gave him an advantage in weightlifting competitions.

  • Many stockily built players excel in contact sports due to their solid form and lower center of gravity.

How Stocky

stockily
1 6.6
broadly
58 2.7
slimly
1 5.0

Surface Forms

stockily positive

Morphology

stockily = stocky (transparent) = stocky + ly

Clear, regular adverbial formation from the adjective 'stocky' using the productive suffix '-ly'.

Etymology

Stockily comes from the adjective stocky, which comes from stock meaning a 'tree trunk' or 'stump' — a picture of something short and thick. The ending -ly turns it into an adverb, so stockily means 'in a broad, solid, and usually short way'.