thickset
/θɪkˈsɛt/
US pronunciation
American sound/θɪkˈsɛt/
θɪkˈsɛt
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
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θɪk - ˈsɛt -> thickset
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘I just retain the impression of a short, thickset, dark-haired individual dressed in hairy tweed and sitting in silence in an armchair.’
- ‘He sat up, revealing broad, stocky shoulders and thickset arms to go along with them.’
- ‘The findings, based on ancient human bones from a cave in Romania, add to the long-running debate as to why Neandertals, a heavy-browed, thickset species of human, eventually became extinct.’
- ‘He was positioned behind three other men and a thickset woman.’
- ‘In one corner, I noticed that a group of thickset males were eyeing their orders.’
- ‘Described as a thickset man of average height, Joe always wore a cap.’
- ‘The peasant in charge of laundry duty, a thickset, intimidating woman of considerable age, looked Kelly up and down with a beady, critical eye.’
- ‘Everywhere you look, there are thickset bully boys in tight-fitting suits, ready to dish out punishment.’
- ‘Karl stood up almost immediately to shake the hand of a thickset man.’
- ‘The widow's small thickset neighbours, gathered in the plain, seemly room, are doggedly attentive as the priest, comically, explains the afterlife to a ghost.’
- ‘The guest was a thickset, strong-looking middle-aged man with grey hair and moustache.’
- ‘Yes, I was accosted, again, in my driveway with two very thickset people, attempted to get into the car at night.’
- ‘A thickset woman with very short, dark hair, she was silent and barely flinched as people passing her hissed insults into her ear.’
- ‘The thickset man, who was in his 50s, drove off with a trailer in tow, but was followed by Mr Long.’
- ‘He's a thickset, ex-pat Brit who's spent nine no-risk years sunning himself by his swimming pool, tempting skin cancer.’
- ‘Without the racist prop the reader would have been just like anyone else on the train, yet with it he suddenly appeared to be an archetypal thickset English thug.’
- ‘Before we could walk to the door, a thickset man opened it.’
- ‘As he strode across the lobby, I saw an elderly man, thickset and tough, who resembled an oil tycoon.’
- ‘The commander was a thickset man with hooded eyelids and a greasy charm.’
- ‘One afternoon a short
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