chunky

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃʌŋki/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋki

chunk +‎ -y

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.

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

See chunkey.

chunky (uncountable)

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