chunky

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʌŋki/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋki

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English chunk

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English chunky

From chunk + -y.

Adjective

chunky (comparative chunkier or more chunky, superlative chunkiest or most chunky)

1. Having chunks.

   I ate a chunky bar of chocolate.

   • 2012, Giuliano Hazan, Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

     They are traditionally served with meat sauces, but are also good with chunky vegetable sauces.

   • 2017, Kieren Hawken, The A-Z of Atari 2600 Games: Volume 1:

     The VCS version looks a little different with its chunky graphics and use of colours but the 112 game variations (yes you read that right!) more than make up for it!

2. (euphemistic, of a person) Fat.

   I prefer chunky blonde girls to skinny brunettes.

   • 2009, Dan Elconin, Never After, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:

     “Nigel used to be chunky, huh?” “I was not chunky,” Nigel said testily. “I was just... hefty .

   • 2011, Broxin Delano, Black Sparrow, BalboaPress, →ISBN, page 19:

     In sixth grade I was first propositioned by a chunky girl named Tijuana Downs. She called me on the telephone one evening and asked me if I would like to be her boyfriend.

3. Of a cat: having a large, solid bodyline.

   The British Shorthair has a distinctively chunky body, dense coat and broad face.

4. (finance, slang) Large.
   • 2004, Erik Banks, The Failure of Wall Street, page 183:

     things where a bank can accumulate a fairly chunky position because of perceived profit opportunities, then wind up owning far more than would seem prudent because they haven't priced in the illiquidity

Synonyms

• (overweight): portly, rotund, obese, husky

Derived terms

• chunkily
• chunkiness
• chunky monkey

Translations

characterized by the pervasiveness of chunks

• Galician: reboulludo m, reboludo (gl) m, tentudo m, graúdo m, bodelo m
• German: klobig (de)
• Hungarian: darabos (hu)
• Spanish: con trozos, a trozos, trozoso
• Turkish: kalın (tr)

euphemism for fat

• Azerbaijani: bədənli, toppuş
• French: courtaud (fr), rondouillard (fr), rondelet (fr), corpulent (fr)
• Galician: zoncho m, patouxo m, croucho (gl) m, bolecho m, pachán (gl) m, moroio m, zambullo m, mazaroqueiro m
• German: stämmig (de), stückig, untersetzt (de)
• Polish: pulchny (pl), przy kości (pl)
• Russian: пухлый (ru) (puxlyj), в те́ле (ru) (v téle), пы́шный (ru) (pýšnyj)
• Spanish: rellenito
• Turkish: gebeş (tr), gödek (tr), tıknaz (tr)

Etymology 2

See chunkey.

Noun

chunky (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of chunkey (“Native American game”).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:chunky.