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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chesty
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chesty coughBritish English (= one that affects your chest)
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His little, chesty brother had made it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chesty

chesty \chesty\ adj.

  1. marked by a large or well-developed chest.

    Syn: big-chested.

  2. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; as, chesty as a peacock.

    Syn: arrogant, self-important.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chesty

"aggressively self-assured," 1898, American English slang, from chest (n.) in the body sense + -y (2). Of a woman, "bosomy, full-breasted," by 1955.

Wiktionary
chesty

a. 1 (context of a woman English) Having large breasts; busty. 2 (context of a cough or cold English) Not dry; involving the coughing of phlegm. 3 Coming from, or associated with, the chest.

WordNet
chesty
  1. adj. marked by a large or well-developed chest; "he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed" [syn: big-chested]

  2. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock" [syn: arrogant, self-important]

  3. [also: chestiest, chestier]

Usage examples of "chesty".

Ann Morgan was also the prettiest, chestiest, most spectacular bomb-shell senior, junior or whatever lady wiggling her well-proportioned body down the halls of Eisenhower High.

There are a couple of pneumonectomies for the week after--both chesty.

General Chesty Vrislakavaro had hardly set foot on the bridge, spending most of his time in his quarters reading, or watching dramas, with time off in the exercise room.

The following day, both Chesty and Loksa were on the bridge when the next report arrived.

Hearing it, Chesty felt sure that if the answer was yes, the assault lander would be ordered to pull away.

He intended to make himself emperor of the Confederation, Chesty had no doubt.

Frensler emerged from the mind of Chesty Vrislakavaro and for a moment sat blinking on her trance cushion.

Army people insisted that Chesty Vrislakavaro was a good CO, that when things were going decently, he could be almost affable.

And Chesty had spoken to the planet by television and radio, expressing his.

It also preempted an appointment authority that properly belonged to Chesty, as commander of the Occupation Army.

On the first occasion it was on the ward, during his round, when she was called upon to demonstrate the progress of the patients she had been treating, and two days later there was a lengthy session with the chesty man, now making steady progress despite his wheezing.

Dave and I were both feeling rather chesty over the masterful manner in which we had aroused the popular feeling in favor of quarantine in our own interest, at the same time making it purely a local movement.

This was a not-unhandsome, chesty man with reddish cheeks and huge hands at the ends of long, long arms.

Franciscus and Johannes were both poorly, with chesty coughs and trouble breathing.

I was already imagining Chesty Puller standing right there where that little green man was.