What's the difference between skinny and stocky?

Skinny


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
  • (2) In some patients no skinny changes can be detected.
  • (3) After a couple of weeks they started sending me on epic coffee runs – it's quite a balancing act to transport 10 skinny cappuccinos.
  • (4) "skinny" needle percutaneous cholangiography, and ERC) only in case of clinical, biological and sonographic discrepancies, or in hilar obstructions.
  • (5) In two cases of jaundice due to choledocholithiasis, the biliary tree was not dilated on skinny-needle transhepatic cholangiography.
  • (6) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
  • (7) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
  • (8) Analysts had previously raised questions about whether the quarterback’s skinny frame could hold up against the sort of punishment he was likely to take in the pros.
  • (9) Sixty consecutive patients, who were deeply jaundiced or in whom intravenous cholangiography had failed, were randomized to retrograde endoscopic cholangiography or percutaneous transheptic cholangiograhy with the "skinny" Chiba needle technique.
  • (10) But that skinny teenager has grown into a 5’5” man weighing almost 17 stone – and today he struggles to find clothes to fit his inflated body and complains that seats are becoming too small for comfort.
  • (11) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
  • (12) His defence was, and remains, that negro simply means black in Spanish, and is acceptable in his culture – like calling somebody chubby or skinny.
  • (13) His assistant for the summer, a 16-year-old who wears both the headscarf and an ankle-long overcoat over her skinny jeans, shrugged.
  • (14) Back in the 1980s, he had been accused by a supergrass, Mickey “Skinny” Gervaise, of having taken part in a robbery.
  • (15) The more troubling issue, though, is that this calculation assumes that as the tall-skinny rectangle gets shorter, it does not get wider.
  • (16) Short, skinny and by his own admission somewhat geekish, Wilson nevertheless stood his ground in the inevitable confrontation with the neighbourhood bully at each new school, among them the Gulf Coast Military Academy, which he described as "a carefully planned nightmare engineered for the betterment of the untutored and undisciplined".
  • (17) This time, it’s casual Chuka: skinny jeans with micro turn-ups, blue suede shoes, pristine white shirt, jacket.
  • (18) Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) with a "skinny" Chiba needle identified the biliary tree in 30 of 31 patients (97%) with extrahepatic obstructive cholestasis (EHC).
  • (19) It’ll bend badly if you drive it wearing skinny hipster jeans In, like, three cases ever.
  • (20) What chance does a skinny guy with a dark complexion and a funny name have to get elected president of the United States?

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.