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Meaning of 'chunky' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Chunky [ a.]
- Short and thick.

Meaning of 'chunky' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . chunky [ s]
Meaning (1):
- short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
Example in sentence:
  • a dumpy little dumpling of a woman;
  • a little church with a squat tower;
  • a squatty red smokestack;
  • a stumpy ungainly figure;
  • dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears;
  • some people seem born to be square and chunky
Meaning (2):
- like or containing small sticky lumps
Example in sentence:
  • the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough

Nearby Words:

chub chub-faced chubbed chubbedness chubby chuck chuck-will's-widow chucked chucking chuckle

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