stockiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈstɒk.i.nəs/ us/ˈstɑː.ki.nəs/
矮壮,敦实
a body shape that is fairly short with wide shoulders and chest
Something about the stockiness of his build seemed familiar. 他矮壮的身材似乎有些熟悉。
The footballer has the stockiness and broad shoulders more associated with a boxer. 这位足球运动员身材矮壮,肩膀宽阔,更像是一名拳击手。
See: stocky
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- He was a man of unusual stockiness.
- Despite her stockiness, she is beautiful.
- Family photographs show a progression from normal stockiness at two, through childhood chubbiness, to frank fatness by ten.