Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
STOCKIER
STOCKY
compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset
(adjective) having a short and solid form or stature; “a wrestler of compact build”; “he was tall and heavyset”; “stocky legs”; “a thickset young man”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
stockier
comparative form of stocky
Anagrams
• Rockites, corkiest, rockiest
Source: Wiktionary
STOCKY
Stock"y, a. Etym: [From Stock.]
1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] G. Eliot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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