What's the difference between meaty and stocky?

Meaty


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in meat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
  • (2) On average, monosodium glutamate and seltzer, which mongrel dogs do not normally encounter in their diets, produced lower gastric acid secretion and pancreatic polypeptide release than sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and meaty tastes.
  • (3) Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven’t panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy’s sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that’s been constructed so far doesn’t have any major weaknesses in it at all.
  • (4) Nordestinos brought their hearty, meaty peasant cuisine with them, and one former factory worker, Jose Oliveira de Almeid, called simply Seu Ze, opened a small restaurant called Mocotó in the working-class suburb of Villa Medeiros.
  • (5) 9.47pm GMT 88 min: … but it's flicked up and lands safely in the comfortingly meaty hands of Lloris.
  • (6) There are 30 new weapons, including a new class of marksman rifles; Perks now have a points system, allowing you to buy several weaker options or opt for one or two really meaty specials.
  • (7) 2.37pm BST 31 mins Ivanovic has just stuck a meaty challenge in on Suárez.
  • (8) Nick Clegg plans to devote a meaty chunk of his leader's speech to listing all the things he has blocked the Tories from doing.
  • (9) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
  • (10) Rory Fallon rises highest and heads clear with a mighty meaty meeting of forehead and Jabulani.
  • (11) We report on 2 unrelated boys with a distinctive facial appearance of microtia, atretic external auditory meati, small mandible, and microstomia, who also have a skeletal dysplasia, microcephaly, and joint contractures.
  • (12) Photograph: Susi Smither A meaty, warming robust meal to get you through the last of the cold spring days.
  • (13) They are characterised by psychomotor retardation, short stature, narrowing of the external auditory meati and abnormalities of the digits.
  • (14) Ordering a procession of dishes to share over a long afternoon's grazing is the perfect way to go here: try crunchy cubes of fried tapioca with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, and out-of-this-world torresmo (meaty, homemade pork scratchings, £1.30).
  • (15) She went for her shots, meaty, buffeting groundstrokes, right from the start and knocked Williams out of her normally commanding stride.
  • (16) He's a man of mellowness, not ego – far from bitter at the lack of meaty roles, just gently getting on with what he's offered.
  • (17) And there were a couple of meaty reforms – raising the personal tax allowance; cutting corporation tax.
  • (18) Miliband's more detailed thoughts on reforming company laws are a little more meaty, but still sketch no more than the first few marks on a blank sheet.
  • (19) Men in professional kitchens all over the world, whether they are cooking big, meaty dishes, or tweezering edible micro flowers on to oysters, salivate over getting a dish just so, and appear to take it far more seriously than most female professional chefs and cooks.
  • (20) Steven Gerrard intervenes and retrieves possession for Liverpool with a meaty challenge.

Stocky


Definition:

  • (a.) Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
  • (a.) Headstrong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since taking office as prime minister for the second time a year ago, stocky, tousle-haired Abe, 59, has avoided hotheaded actions and kept his political powder dry.
  • (2) A stocky man with a round face and belly, and skinny legs revealed beneath his shorts, he answered to Dr T or, among friends, Johnny, and when he smiled, his eyes crinkled nearly shut.
  • (3) Malatesta, a short, stocky Australian never seen without a hat, nods sagely.
  • (4) Stocky and shaven-headed, Clapper is part boardroom, part boxer.
  • (5) A 53-year-old man with a short stocky build, mild mental retardation, gynecomastia and hypogonadism was found to have a small ring Y chromosome unassociated with mosaicism.
  • (6) The patient had such clinical manifestations as short stature with low body weight, thin limbs and stocky trunk, senile face, early graying hair, highpitched voice, bilateral cataracts, osteoporosis, sclerodermia-like signs, flat feet, tendency toward diabetes mellitus and parental consanguinity.
  • (7) The stocky, powerful dwarf inexorably cuts through foes, for instance – a far cry from the speedy elf's approach or the wizard's all-encompassing magic.
  • (8) Batmanglij, who was born to Iranian émigré parents 29 years ago and grew up in Washington DC, is short and stocky with close-cropped black hair.
  • (9) He is a stocky, soft-cheeked 34-year-old Korean man wearing a shiny dinner jacket, co-respondent shoes without socks and enough make-up to make Katie Price seem like an ambassador for the natural look.
  • (10) Patrons were categorized by visual appraisal into forty-eight cross-classified groups according to sex (male, female), body build (slender, sturdy, stocky, obese), height (tall, average, short), and age (less than and more than thirty years of age).
  • (11) In person he's quite offhand, an odd mixture of shy and intensely self-assured, and with his stocky build and salt-and-pepper beard he conveys the impression of a very clever badger, burrowing away in the undergrowth of economic detail, ready to give quite a sharp bite if you get in his way.
  • (12) And we shouldn’t forget that.” Stocky, balding and, though a good decade older, every bit as passionate about his dairying as Jones, Hook operates a profoundly different business model.
  • (13) Facebook employee Tom Stocky took paternity leave for four months to stay at home with his first child.
  • (14) The red caps are led by Christian Troadec, a stocky former journalist who has been mayor of Carhaix on a leftwing ticket for 12 years.
  • (15) He speaks with a London accent and is of stocky build.
  • (16) Thus, all the stocky muscles lying close to an articulation do not behave in the same way.
  • (17) Boukadida, a short, stocky man with a full beard, was trying to escape arrest when pushed from a second-floor window by police in his home town of Sousse in November.
  • (18) The "world team" played lackadaisical football, letting passes slide through and melting away whenever Kadyrov, stocky and heavy on his feet, had the ball.
  • (19) He is of stocky build and has a tattoo on his hand.
  • (20) The room was full of sunlight, and now I saw him clearly: a stocky man, thirties, unkempt, with a round friendly face and unruly hair.