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say it: CHUHNG-kee
chunky is an adjective meaning "like or containing small sticky lumps". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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 a woman”
“dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears”
“a little church with a squat tower”
“a squatty red smokestack”
“a stumpy ungainly figure”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chunky come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.