Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. 1 (&lit .=: English) Having large bones. 2 (context humorous or euphemistic English) fat, obese. alt. 1 (&lit .=: English) Having large bones. 2 (context humorous or euphemistic English) fat, obese.
WordNet
adj. having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh
Usage examples of "big-boned".
He was tall for a Chinese, nearly six foot, one of the northern types akin to the Khamba Tibetan, big-boned and long-headed.
Nobody shoots a catalogue in Cancun in the peak season, especially not with big-boned cowgirls like Evie Cottrell.
Looking round, the wayfarers saw a gaunt, big-boned man, with sunken cheeks and a sallow face, who had come up behind them.
Red did look like a very competent young man with his corded muscles, his big-boned brawniness.
The smallest surprises thrilled Agnes, even coming from a brothen Big-boned, stocky, plain-faced women were not used to getting gifts when there was no occasion requiring them.
She was a strong one, this big-boned, big-breasted woman with her unhappy eyes.
Vulth was older—he had to be close to thirty—and taller, but deep-chested, big-boned Granth owned a bull's strength his cousin had trouble matching.
And the astronauts: the hard core of them, the big-boned, blue-eyed WASPs of the earliest recruitment rounds, many of them greying now, few of them still active, but still fit and tanned and with faces like craggy lunar rock.
It was too dark to recognize features behind those full-face masks, but MacKenzie's big-boned lankiness was a welcome sight indeed.
They were big-boned and fair, clad similarly to Lockridge, their hair braided and beards haggled short.
She was big-boned and heavyset, and dressed with a sobriety that suggested a uniform: white shirtwaist blouse, brown tweed skirt, and flat-heeled walking shoes.