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stocky

adjective as in short and overweight; short and muscular

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The stocky songbird normally travels between the eastern United States and lowland South American forests twice a year.

From BBC

"You miss Russell Crowe, but Mescal is always watchable, with a stocky, swarthy, brooding presence," he added in the four-star review.

From BBC

Aside from the bartender, there was only one person actually braving the record-breaking 110-degree heat on the roof and watching UFC preliminaries on the wall-mounted TV: a gregarious, stocky, bespectacled older man named Mike.

From Slate

He’s stocky, with light brown eyes and tattoos of his late brother and a 170 Freeway sign on his upper chest.

Except, wait a minute, who was that small, stocky man bouncing out of the pack and suddenly leading cheers?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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