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Answer for the clue "Thickset ", 6 letters:
chunky

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Chunky " is the debut single from German duo Format B . It was released on 13 November 2015 as a digital download in the United Kingdom through Ministry of Sound Records . The song debuted at number 29 on the UK Singles Chart and at number 5 on the UK ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chunky \Chunk"y\ (ch[u^ ng]k*[y^]), a. Short and thick. [U. S.] --Kane.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. like or containing small stick lumps; "the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough" [syn: lumpy ] short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"thickset," 1751, from chunk + -y (2). Originally U.S. colloquial. Related: Chunkiness .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 having chunks 2 (context euphemistic of a person English) fat Etymology 2 n. (alternative form of chunkey nodot=1 English) (gloss: Native American game).

Usage examples of chunky.

Her jewelry was Bakelite, two chunky bracelets that clattered on her narrow wrist.

A frowning middle-aged woman with conspicuously rouged cheeks, chunky bifocal glasses.

They all seemed to be based on the design of the type he had first met, with that chunky dodecahedral body, limbs sprouting in a variety of configurations, apparently specialized.

Lake Pointe, the handsome house, snap and hiss of logs aflame, chunky glass in my hand, Glory Doyle Geis in wine slacks and white sweater sitting on a cushion on the raised hearth, dainty, bitter-sweet, semi-sad in the firelight.

It seemed chunky - that darkness - as Lunk watched for sign of human presence beyond.

One navvy sprouted a set of finepointed tools and began to take apart a chunky, half-ruined segment of the Mantis.

The woman in the other half is Rosella Munson, thirty-four, medium dark, chunky.

During a trip to the gymnasium, Cranston introduced Harry to the physical director, a chunky, affable man named Tom Rydal, who had done wonders with his job.

The impression of a healthy animal peasant girl was heightened by the chunky hips in faded blue stockinet bathing trunks and the thick short thighs and legs that were revealed when she had stripped.

It was big and chunky and battered, looking as if some large component of an orbital fabrication plant had drifted out this way by accident, acquiring wear and patches and micrometeor impacts along the way.

Shanghai: a step unit done up in Beaux-Arts ironmongery, a rowing machine cleverly fashioned of writhing sea-serpents and hard-bodied nereids, a rack of free weights supported by four callipygious caryatids-not chunky Greeks but modern women, one of each major racial group, each tricep, gluteus, latissimus, sartorius, and rectus abdominus casting its own highlight.

She had a squat, almost bulldoggy figure, and her odd black hair, when it grew, grew upwards so it never covered her ears or chunky neck.

Sunbright was hard-pressed to beat them back, both from himself and from the chunky Candlemas, whom the barbarian considered helpless.

Draka around him as his fingers caressed the chunky wooden forestock of the weapon.

The lads waited, Tad almost with the patience of an Indian, Chunky ill at ease and restless.