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chunky

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈt͡ʃʌŋki//

Having chunks.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having chunks.

    I ate a chunky bar of chocolate.

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

    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. 2

    Fat.

    I prefer chunky blonde girls to skinny brunettes.

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

    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. 3

    Of a cat: having a large, solid bodyline.

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

  4. 4

    slangLarge.

    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

Etymology

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.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of chunkeyAlternative form of chunkey (“Native American game”).

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:chunky.

Etymology

See chunkey.

Forms

comparative
chunkier, more chunky
superlative
chunkiest, most chunky
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).