Of persons, and animals: Strongly and stoutly built, sturdy, robust.

Of a person or animal: Thickset, stout, burly. Obsolete exc. dialect.

(a) ? Clumsy, awkward. (b) ? Stoutly-built.

That is square or squarish in shape; (spec. of a person) solidly built, fat.

= stalworth, adj.

Of persons or animals: Strong, sturdy, stalwart.

Of persons or animals; Characterized by rough bodily vigour; solidly built; stalwart, strong, robust, hardy.

‘Large and well-made’ (Jamieson); stately; stalwart; sturdy, stout, burly.

Of limbs, the body, etc.: approximating to a square section or outline; stoutly and strongly built; solid, sturdy.

‘Stout’ of body.

(See quot.)

Of a person, a part of the body, or (esp. in later use) a person's physique, etc.: solid, sturdy; strong, burly; muscular; well-built.

With reference to a person's body or part of the body: of large proportions. In later use also: (euphemistic) plump; corpulent, fat.

Of persons (†and animals): Strongly and stoutly built, sturdy, robust.

General attributive, with sense ‘resembling or reminiscent of a pudding, shaped like a pudding’, as pudding boy, pudding leg, pudding shape…

Having a full or otherwise substantial body.

Zoology and Physical Anthropology. Of a part of the body: strong, thick, or sturdy. Of an animal or (later) a fossil hominid (cf. sense B. 2)…

colloquial. Big, bulky, strapping. ? Obsolete.

Strong and active, stout, strapping.

Originally of a young woman: †Full of activity, vigorous, lusty (obsolete). Now of a person of either sex: Strongly and stoutly built, robust, sturdy.

stoutly formed, thick-set.

Of close compact build; esp. short and strongly made; square-built; stocky. (This is now the commonest use.)

Of a person (or occasionally an animal): broad, sturdy, well-built; fat, plump.

regional. Thick, chunky; esp. (of a person) thickset, solidly built. Cf. junk, n.1 2. Now rare.

adj. = swank, adj.1, swanking, adj.1

Of a person: bulky in figure (usually connoting stiffness and clumsiness in movement).

Of a person or animal: having a wide, large, or heavily built body.

Beefy (with favourable implication).

Thick-set, solidly built.

Of a person (esp. a man) or their body: muscular, well-toned; physically attractive.

= buff, adj.2 Also with out, up.