Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Short and thick; stocky.
- adj. Containing small thick pieces: chunky peanut butter; chunky soup.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Disproportionately thick or stout; appearing like a chunk: as, a chunky boy or horse.
Wiktionary
- adj. having chunks
- adj. euphemistic, of a person fat
- n. A sport or game played by the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the Carolinas, which involved throwing a spear at a rolling disk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. United States Short and thick.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
- adj. like or containing small sticky lumps
Etymologies
- From an Algonquian word. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There is nothing of that magnitude, of what I call chunky, that is on the near-term horizon that is going to have to be dealt with, and in fact I think that this is probably a good point just to talk about the granularity in this loan portfolio.”
“Digital Manga is promoting this new series, released in chunky (300+ pages) volumes, as a classic shojo manga, trumpeting how it has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.”
“So brilliantly scripted, excellent one liners, and packed with subtle cues and signifiers, from men in chunky sweaters to Elvis Christmas songs.”
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“Author and illustrator, Peter McCarty, recognizes the trend in chunky pets.”
“September 22, 2006 @ 10: 56 pm it looks good in chunky yarn (i know i sound surprised). are you going to stretch it out and block it?”
“In high school they had it on the salad & sandwich bar in chunky style and I switched and never bought chunky since unless I’m making homemade chocolate pb cups!”
“You want the nutella to be swirled and the banana to remain chunky.”
“Right on to Anil for pushing the notion of chunky thinking.”
“Also he'd been described as a chunky party with a round face decorated with a cute little mustache and baby blue eyes.”
“In architecture he is what you'd call a chunky man,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chunky’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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words to describe everything GOLD
emotions, reactions, senses, how do we feel when we wear gold, generational, memories,
Sensual, illuminated, history, intricate, classic, bright, luxe, sparkly, splashy, metallic, perfection, gilt and 30 more...
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Hey Hey It's My Monkey!
I don't have a monkey. But if I did, he/she would be named ...
hanuman, shock, 500, rhesus, wrench, spank, puzzle, davy jones, funky, grip, swinger, chunky and 33 more...
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Words We Dislike!
A list created for TRM, because there are certain words that we just kind of hate.
lover, fetus, smegma, saggy, coulomb, placenta, consumate, moist, sticky, bedroom suit, jiggles, blubber and 52 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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yuck words
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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zumchen's Words
frolic, fornicate, steely, outflank, unwonted, serenity, demure, insatiable, quench, unparalleled, germane, rote and 35 more...
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Gross Words
Words that are gross.
fester, moist, pustules, ferment, ooze, clot, chunky, crusty, salivate
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archmage's Words
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Terrible Words
moist, creamy, girthy, falafel, jizz, chunky, panties, spread, puss
Tweets
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