Definitions

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  • noun The state or quality of being stocky.

Etymologies

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From stocky +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I turned around but could not see the building from where I emerged, it being tucked off the main street and its single-storey stockiness obscured by the expansive greenbelt that set it off from the rest of the city.

    Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri 2010

  • A nice example of selection of emergent features would be the stockiness of the limbs of ambulatory creatures in a gravitational field.

    It's more than genes, it's networks and systems - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • His height, stockiness, bubble eyes, and stern look probably intimidated others.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • His height, stockiness, bubble eyes, and stern look probably intimidated others.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • His height, stockiness, bubble eyes, and stern look probably intimidated others.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • His height, stockiness, bubble eyes, and stern look probably intimidated others.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • He stood bare-chested, heavy-muscled, profoundly wide in the shoulders and arms, a stockiness that extended down to his legs, where the sides of his pants had been spliced apart and filled in with extra strips of linen.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • He stood bare-chested, heavy-muscled, profoundly wide in the shoulders and arms, a stockiness that extended down to his legs, where the sides of his pants had been spliced apart and filled in with extra strips of linen.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • He stood bare-chested, heavy-muscled, profoundly wide in the shoulders and arms, a stockiness that extended down to his legs, where the sides of his pants had been spliced apart and filled in with extra strips of linen.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • He stood bare-chested, heavy-muscled, profoundly wide in the shoulders and arms, a stockiness that extended down to his legs, where the sides of his pants had been spliced apart and filled in with extra strips of linen.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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