different between chunkey vs chunky

English

Alternative forms

• chenco
• chungke
• chunky
• tchungke
• tchungkee, tchung-kee

Etymology

From an Algonquian word.

Noun

chunkey (countable and uncountable, plural chunkies)

1. A sport or game played by the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the Carolinas, which involved rolling stone disks across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to land the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???ki/
• Rhymes: -??ki

Etymology 1

chunk +? -y

Adjective

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.
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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Etymology 2

See chunkey.

Noun

chunky (uncountable)

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